APPARATUS FOR APPLYING SUTURES TO URETHRA

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has tubular casing with drive and conic working head. Removable needles are angularly divergent and have ligature, the needles are mounted in the conic working head cavity on end flange of movable rod. The removable needles are directed towards tissue fixation unit with their sharp tips. The tissue fixation unit is mounted in the device body and has grooves for receiving needles. The device of special purpose structure has elastic clamp shaped as flexible ring or as several original irregular shape rods arranged in a circle mounted on end flange of movable rod for additionally fastening removable needles and fixing ligature. The drive is designed as end rest on the tubular casing and as supporting cross-piece mounted on idle end of the movable rod to enable rotation and orientation along longitudinal slit. The longitudinal slit is produced in the tubular casing between the end rest and tissue fixation unit external diameter of which is not less than 2mm greater than the maximum conic working head diameter. EFFECT: atraumatic engagement with tissues to be sewn; reliability of anastomosis and its sealing conditions. 6 dwg