Suturing device, system, and method

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Improved medical suturing devices, systems and methods may hold a suture , needle at a fixed location relative to a handle of the device allowing the , surgeon to grasp and manipulate the handle of the suturing device to insert the needle through tissues in a manner analogous to use of a standard needle gripper. Cycling the handle from a closed position to an open position and back to the closed position may alternate the device between gripping the needle with a first clamp (for example along a proximal portion of the , needle) to gripping the needle with a second clamp (for example along a , distal portion of the needle) and optionally back to gripping with the first clamp, with the …