Patent ID: 9028455
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A61C,A61M,B65D

Abstract:
1. A surgical instrument for perforating a human or animal body and injecting a pharmaceutical product into the human or animal body, the surgical instrument comprising: an elongate hand-piece having opposed first and second ends, a head at the first end that includes a central throughway, and an outer wall circumferentially disposed with respect to a central axis of the elongate hand-piece, wherein the outer wall encloses an interior volume that extends from the first end to the second end of the outer wall; a tubular holder disposed partially within the interior volume of the elongate hand-piece, and rotatable with respect to the elongate hand-piece, about the central axis of the hand-piece, wherein the tubular holder has a central axis and includes a pharmaceutical product container disposed partially within the tubular holder and entirely within the interior volume of the elongate hand-piece, wherein a perforating needle passing through the neck of the tubular holder, fixedly held in the neck of the tubular holder, and connected to the pharmaceutical product container for delivering a pharmaceutical product from within the pharmaceutical product container while the tubular holder and the pharmaceutical product container are rotated about the central axis of the tubular holder, relative to the elongate hand-piece.