Suturing Device Viewing Port for Minimally Invasive Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Minimally invasive surgical suturing procedures face challenges with slow and difficult visualization of suture placement, leading to inefficiencies in minimally invasive surgeries like cardiac valve replacements.
Innovation Solution
A surgical suturing device with a guide tip featuring framing arms that define a viewing port and a tissue bite area, allowing for improved visualization of the needle's path and ferrule holder, enabling precise suture placement and ferrule management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If minimally invasive surgical procedures are performed through smaller access wounds, then patient outcomes are improved with less peri-operative pain and more rapid recovery, but suture placement becomes slow, tedious and difficult to visualize
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a viewing port that provides a third dimensional perspective (visual field) to the traditional linear surgical approach. The framing arms create a window through which the surgeon can directly observe the needle path and tissue bite area, transforming the surgical experience from blind manipulation to visual-guided precision, thereby maintaining high suture placement speed while achieving minimally invasive benefits
2Reliability
If minimally invasive surgical procedures are performed through smaller access wounds, then patient outcomes are improved with less peri-operative pain and more rapid recovery, but visualization of suture placement becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The viewing port acts as an intermediary optical window between the surgeon's eye and the deep tissue site. The framing arms create a structured aperture that mediates the visual information, allowing indirect observation of the needle path and tissue bite area without requiring direct line of sight through the minimally invasive access wound
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a viewing port that provides a third dimensional perspective (visual field) to the traditional linear surgical approach. The framing arms create a window through which the surgeon can directly observe the needle path and tissue bite area, transforming the surgical experience from blind manipulation to visual-guided precision
3Length of moving object
If specialized instruments are used for minimally invasive surgery, then access wound size is reduced, but suture placement remains slow and tedious
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument incorporates a movable needle that can be dynamically positioned and advanced through the tissue along a controlled path. The needle can be reciprocated through the tissue bite area multiple times, allowing flexible adjustment of penetration depth and angle, thereby maintaining high suture placement speed while achieving minimally invasive benefits
Data Source
AI summary
A suturing device is disclosed. The suturing device has a guide tip. The guide tip has first and second framing arms that define a viewing port from a first orientation. The guide tip also has proximal and distal ends of the guide tip which, with the first and second framing arms, define a tissue bite area from a second orientation. The suturing device also has a ferrule holder located in the distal end of the guide tip and centered relative to the first orientation. The suturing device further has a needle movable within the guide tip along a path through the tissue bite area and centrally viewable in the viewing port relative to the first orientation.