Patent ID: 8628546
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A surgical suture method for the muscular-skeletal system employing a surgical suture instrument having an external element; an internal element received in the external element for lengthways movement inside the external element; and at least one blade carried by the internal element, the at least one blade positioned proximate a proximate end of the surgical suture instrument which is closest to a tissue during use of the surgical suture instrument, the external element having two holes through which a suture material extends, and the blades having at least two sharp cutting edges and an unsharpened groove between the cutting edges to receive a portion of the suture material, the surgical suture method comprising: positioning the proximate end of the surgical suture instrument adjacent tissue to be sutured; and moving the internal element to extend the at least one blade along with the suture material carried by the unsharpened groove out of the external element to physically engage the tissue with the suture material on a forward pass of the at least one blade in a direction in which the at least one blade cuts the tissue.