SUTURE RETAINING MEMBER FOR USE IN MEDICAL TREATMENT

摘要

A medical suture holding member loaded in use on an automatic sewing device having a staple line. The suture holding member includes a main body portion of a holding member molded integrally to a tubular shape from a natural or synthetic high molecular material and having an opening on its proximal end for enabling loading of the main body portion of the holding member on a sewing unit of the automatic sewing device. The suture holding member is molded to a tubular shape opened at its distal end to eliminate offsetting otherwise caused on contraction in the inserting direction at the time of insertion of the suture holding member into the automatic sewing device. When the suture holding member is inserted on the automatic sewing device, the entire surface of a loading portion is covered by the suture holding member such that the suture holding member can be reliably positioned at a sewing position in the living body. The suture holding member is prevented from being detached from the sewing device by provision of a detachment preventative unit in the main body portion.