Patent ID: 7311715
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A suturing set for medical purposes, having a handle, a needle that can be secured to the handle and is configured, at least partly, as a hollow needle, as well as a conveyor member that is mounted on the handle and can slide between two end positions to conduct slack, bendable suturing material to the needle, wherein the conveyor member has a clamping device by means of which the inserted suturing material can be gripped in an end position of the conveyor member by clamping and can be released again in the other end position of the conveyor member, and wherein the suturing set is distinguished in that, on reaching an end position of the conveyor member by sliding the conveyor member, the inserted suturing material is held by gripping and is not released again until it reaches the other end position of the conveyor member.