A61B2017/043 - CPC Classification

Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets for suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials; Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body the barbs being expanded by a mechanical mechanism which also locks them in the expanded state by insertion of a separate spreading member into the anchor

• A61B2017/0432 » {the separate member staying in the anchor after placement} 87
• A61B2017/0433 » {the anchor or the separate member comprising threads, e.g. a set screw or a worm gear for moving spreading members} 38

Recent Application in this class: