HEMOSTASIS PROMOTING DEVICE FOR SEALING A PUNCTURE IN A PATIENT

摘要

A hemostasis promoting device (20) is disclosed for sealing a puncture or puncture (24) in the body of a patient wherein the closure device (22) includes an anchor member (32), a collagen plug (30), a filament and a bioabsorbable tamping member (130) wherein the tamping member includes a clot promoting agent therein to prevent capillary bleeding in the proximal portion of the puncture and to eliminate blood seepage past the collagen plug to ensure that the patient may be promptly and reliably ambulated within a relatively short period of time once the closure device has been administered to the patient.