Instrument for use in surgery

摘要

A double limbed suturing instrument for use in surgery has clamping limbs 11a, 11b which can be guided together by the exertion of pressure in order to retain a needle or a thread. Cutting means 13, 14 are provided at one or both of the clamping limbs and can be selectively advanced out of or retracted into the clamping limbs by advancing or retracting a slider 21. The instrument can therefore be used in the normal way to clamp articles and also however to cut threads or the like.