Encore Medical Corporation

Tensor, Surgical, Inc

Brett Sanders

Keith J Harper

An arm retainer for supporting a patient's arm at a desired position on an articulatable support assembly secured to an operating table. The arm retainer includes a rigid arm tray () provided with a pair of spaced openings () for securement of a disposable arm support liner () to the tray. The arm support liner () is comprised of a sheet of malleable material () with a soft engagement surface () for skin contact with the patient and is provided with a predetermined cut configuration for wrapping the malleable liner () about the patient's arm for retention of the arm therein. The line () has two spaced foldout tabs () aligned with the corresponding tray openings () for securing the liner to the tray () by folding the tabs () through respective of the openings () and thereafter against the bottom side of the tray.

Surgical arm positioner with sterile disposable support

An arm retainer for supporting a patient's arm at a desired position on an articulatable support assembly secured to an operating table. The arm retainer includes a rigid arm tray () provided with a pair of spaced openings () for securement of a disposable arm support liner () to the tray. The arm support liner () is comprised of a sheet of malleable material () with a soft engagement surface () for skin contact with the patient and is provided with a predetermined cut configuration for wrapping the malleable liner () about the patient's arm for retention of the arm therein. The liner () has two spaced foldout tabs () aligned with the corresponding tray openings () for securing the liner to the tray () by folding the tabs () through respective of the openings () and thereafter against the bottom side () of the tray.

A surgical suture passer () having a hollow needle () with an axial lumen () and a handle () having the hollow needle () secured and retained at its proximal end (). The handle () defines a planar recessed surface () and the lumen () of the hollow needle () is aligned with this planar recessed surface () when the needle is retained by the handle () whereby a suture positioned on the planar surface () may be advanced or retracted by direct finger engagement of the suture into and out of the hollow needle lumen ().

Surgical suture passer and method of application

A passive retrieving interosseous suture passing instrument () having a guide handle () with a proximal end for grasping and a distal end for engagement with a bone () to which suture () is to be attached. The bone () is provided with a first tunnel (), and a suture retrieving arm () carried at the distal end of the guide handle () is provided with a distal tip dimensioned to be received in the first tunnel ().

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Signal Mountain, TN, United States of America

Brett Sanders