Patent ID: 8608758
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A soft tissue defect repair system comprising: a longitudinally extending guide tube having a channel extending therethrough; a boom arm extending from the guide tube, the boom arm having a boom arm housing that is spaced from the guide tube, wherein a tissue-receiving gap is disposed between the boom arm housing and the guide tube; a needle reciprocally translatable within the channel of the guide tube between an advanced position in which a distal end of the needle extends into the boom arm housing, and a retracted position in which the distal end of the needle is retracted from the boom arm housing; a shuttling element configured to detachably couple to the needle, and to the boom arm housing, wherein an external surface of the guide tube defines a target knot location, and the shuttling element is configured to attach to a free end of a strand of suture, such that a pre-tied knot of the strand of suture is configured to be tied around the target knot location of the guide tube, such that the pre-tied knot is configured to be pushed off a distal end of the guide tube and over the free end of the suture strand so as to tighten a soft tissue defect approximated by the strand of suture.