Surgical clips and surgical clip applicator and cutting and transection device

摘要

Single or double U-shaped surgical clips having leg faces with mating projections and apertures for securely locking tissue therebetween. An applicator device for applying the clips have walls temporarily receiving the clips, the walls having grooved surfaces to receive clip legs. The applicator has a sliding blade structure for severing tissue or for taking a transection. The applicator has a multiple handle assembly for effecting movement of slidably interfitting members, to accomplish surgical clip crimping about tissue and, thereafter, severing or transecting tissue.