US 10,517,613 B2 · Systems, devices, and methods for guiding surgical devices into bone

Abstract

Devices, systems, and methods are generally provided for guiding surgical devices into a desired location and orientation in a bone. In general, the devices can include an elongate guide, a sleeve having an inner lumen therethrough for seating the guide, and a locking mechanism configured to lock a position of the guide with respect to the sleeve. The guide can have a distal, bone-engaging portion that can be laterally offset from an intermediate portion of the guide by a predetermined distance and that can extend distally beyond the sleeve to contact a bony structure. The guide can thus orient and stabilize the sleeve at the predetermined distance from the bony structure to provide for the delivery of one or more surgical devices through the sleeve and into the bone at a desired location and orientation, without requiring a surgeon to actually view the surgical site.

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Dependent claims

A surgical guide system, comprising:

a sleeve having an inner lumen extending there through;
a guide that is removably insertable into the inner lumen of the sleeve, the guide having a distal tip that is laterally offset from a central longitudinal axis of the inner lumen by a predetermined distance;
and
a locking mechanism configured to be disposed in the inner lumen of the sleeve, the locking mechanism having an outer surface that is configured to engage an outer surface of the guide along a longitudinal length of an intermediate portion of the outer surface of the locking mechanism to maintain a location of the guide with respect to the sleeve in a fixed position in which a portion of the guide extends through the inner lumen and the distal tip extends distally beyond a distal-most end of the sleeve, and a trocar that is removably insertable into the inner lumen of the sleeve to engage the guide and maintain the guide in the fixed position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems, devices, and methods for guiding surgical devices into bone

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Systems, devices, and methods for guiding surgical devices into bone

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