VASCULAR WOUND CLOSURE DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for precisely locating a blood vessel wound and sealing the wound.

SOLUTION: An apparatus for closing a vascular wound includes an apparatus that can be threaded over a guidewire into place at or adjacent the wound. The apparatus includes a chamber that encloses a hemostatic material therein. When the apparatus is positioned adjacent the wound as desired, the hemostatic material 80 is deployed from the chamber. Blood contacts the hemostatic material, and blood clotting is preferably facilitated by a hemostatic agent within the material. Thus, the vascular puncture wound is sealed by blood clot formation.

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