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US 11,998,218 B2Granted
System, apparatus, and method for cutting bone during an orthopaedic surgical procedure
AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
InventorsJose F. Guzman, Gordon Dodds
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to orthopaedic surgical tools used to cut and/or resect a bone of a patient during an orthopaedic surgical procedure such as, for example, a joint replacement procedure.
Claims10
A method for cutting a bone of a patient using a bone saw tool, the method comprising:
- determining, with a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system, a final cutting plane within a coordinate system, the final cutting plane corresponding to a planned resectioning plane for the bone to be cut;
- monitoring, with the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system, movement of the bone saw tool in the coordinate system;
- predicting, with the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system, a cutting path of a bone saw blade of the bone saw tool in the coordinate system based on the monitored movement;
- determining, with the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system, that the predicted cutting path of the bone saw blade will result in a cutting plane below the final cutting plane;
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- transmitting, with the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system, a signal to the bone saw tool to cause a reduction in the cutting effectiveness of the bone saw blade in response to determining that the predicted cutting path of the bone saw blade will result in a cutting plane below the final cutting plane.
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