Integrated intraoperative nerve monitoring system
AssigneeBien-Air Holding SA
InventorsAdrian Sallaz, Roman Amrein
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Abstract
A surgical drilling device (10) with integrated nerve monitoring capabilities comprising a bur (1) fitted with a drilling tip (12), and that is actuated in rotation by a rotating shaft (11) driven by a motor (5) wherein the rotating shaft (11) is electrically connected at a rear end (11B) thereof to a coupling device (21) of a nerve monitoring module (20) for the transmission of electrical nerve stimulation signals (S) through axial contacting.
Claims19
Surgical drilling device with integrated nerve monitoring capabilities comprising a bur that is fitted with a drilling tip and is actuated in rotation by connection to a front end of a rotating shaft driven by a motor, wherein said rotating shaft is electrically connected at an opposite, rear end thereof to a coupling device of a nerve monitoring module comprising an axial contacting element for the transmission of electrical nerve stimulation signals through a concave contact surface stretching inside a radius of a face of said opposite, rear end of said rotating shaft.
Surgical drilling device with integrated nerve monitoring capabilities comprising a bur that is fitted with a drilling tip and is actuated in rotation by connection to a front end of a rotating shaft driven by a motor, wherein said rotating shaft is electrically connected at an opposite, rear end thereof to a coupling device of a nerve monitoring module comprising an axial contacting element for the transmission of electrical nerve stimulation signals through a contact surface stretching inside a radius of a face of said opposite, rear end of said rotating shaft, wherein said contact surface is fitted inside a central recess formed in the face of said opposite, rear end of the rotating shaft.
Surgical drilling device with integrated nerve monitoring capabilities comprising a bur that is fitted with a drilling tip and is actuated in rotation by a rotating shaft driven by a motor, wherein said rotating shaft is electrically connected at a rear end thereof to a coupling device of a nerve monitoring module comprising an axial contacting element for the transmission of electrical nerve stimulation signals through a contact surface stretching inside a radius of said rear end of said rotating shaft, wherein said coupling device comprises a linear actuator displaceable along a rotational axis of said rotating shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.