Joseph M. Thielen,Jason P. Hill,Mark L. Jenson,Michael J. Pikus,Leonard B. Richardson,Joel Groff
申请号：
US13025356
公开号：
US08444673B2
申请日:
2011.02.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
Methods of installing a vascular closure device, the vascular closure device adapted for sealing an opening in biological tissue and comprising an anchor, a compressible plug, a cinch and a suture, the method comprising the steps of providing an insertion sheath, inserting the insertion sheath into the opening in the biological tissue, providing a device sheath having the vascular closure device preloaded therein with a proximal portion of the suture attached to the device sheath, subsequent to the step of inserting the insertion sheath, inserting the device sheath into the insertion sheath, and retracting the insertion sheath and device sheath simultaneously, wherein during the retraction, the insertion sheath and the device sheath are fixed to one another and devices adapted to the methods.
