SURGICAL STAPLE

摘要

A surgical staple (40) comprises a base portion (40A) and a respective leg (40B) extending from each end of the base portion and terminating at a free end (40D), the base portion being deformable to bring the free ends of the legs together to penetrate a liquid-carrying vessel at the site of a puncture and hold the opposite edges of the puncture together. The base portion and legs lie in substantially a commmon plane except for a centre portion (40C) of the base portion which is deformed in a loop in a direction perpendicular to the common plane. The centre portion of the staple allows the staple to straddle a blood locator tube projecting from the end of a stapler, so that the staple can be closed at the centre of a puncture wound in which the tube is located.