Patent ID: 8353919
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A suture assisting and maintaining apparatus, comprising: a loop suture adapted to be an elastic member configured threaded through skin around a wide open wound; a tightening member for gathering both ends of the threaded loop suture at one point in order to tighten the threaded loop suture and exert a pressure of wound tightening force evenly on skin; a pulling member for pulling the loop suture in order to tighten the threaded loop suture; a housing member for housing the pulling member and making the loop suture tightened by transformation of a pulling force to a wound tightening force, the tightening member being adapted to be in contact with a distal end of the housing member when said pulling member pulls the loop suture out of the skin; an elastic member configured to buffer the strain force loaded on the loop suture; and a locking member for fixing a position of the pulling member in relation to the housing member constant by moving the pulling member in one-way to maintain the tightened status.