US 11,925,387 B2
Surgical access device with fascial closure system
Amanda Adinolfi, Wallingford, CT (US); Oksana Buyda, Northford, CT (US); and Krishnakumar Somasundaram, North Haven, CT (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/862,899.
Application 17/862,899 is a continuation of application No. 16/550,470, filed on Aug. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,389,193.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/739,909, filed on Oct. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346835 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/3423 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0469 (2013.01); A61B 17/0057 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3429 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical access device, comprising:
a housing;
a cannula extending distally from the housing and defining a longitudinal axis, the cannula including a wall defining a first slot;
a guide engagable with the housing and defining a first channel that is disposed at a non- parallel angle relative to the longitudinal axis; and
a lumen extending through the housing, through the cannula, and through the guide, the lumen being coaxial with the longitudinal axis while the guide is engaged with the housing,
wherein a first surgical instrument is insertable through the first channel of the guide and through the first slot of the cannula.