摘要 |
A new surgical clamp which allow for approximating and everting the skin edges around a wound or incision. A surgical clamp is provided having a pair of intersecting arms and a pivot interconnecting the arms for providing rotating motion about the pivot. The arms each comprise a handle portion, a jaw portion, and a shaft portion between the handle and jaw portions. The handle portion further comprises a finger loop and a latching mechanism opposite the finger loop. The jaw portion also preferably has a skin engagement surface comprising one or more grasping teeth and a skin eversion channel. The skin engagement surfaces on each jaw portion is operably opposed and the latching mechanism operably engageable when the handle portions are rotated toward each other for holding the handle portions in a fixed position, and for operably engaging the skin engagement surfaces and the skin eversion channel.
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