Surgical Guide Apparatus and Method of Use
AssigneesMichael H. Sumko, Michael R. Schramm
InventorMichael H. Sumko
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Abstract
The invention disclosed herein is a surgical guide apparatus (SGA) and method of use. The guide apparatus preferably comprises a collar connected to a guide tube. The guide apparatus is expressly adapted to mount to the finger of a surgeon and to facilitate the proper insertion of a K-wire into a patient without tearing the surgeon's glove or cutting the surgeon.
Claims20
A surgical guide apparatus comprising a collar expressly adapted to mount to a user's finger, and a pin guide device connected to said collar.
A surgical guide apparatus comprising a collar expressly adapted to press fittingly mount to a user's finger, a pin guide tube connected to said collar, and a pin movably positioned in said pin guide tube.
A method of inserting a pin comprising mounting a surgical guide apparatus to a user's finger, inserting said finger with said surgical guide apparatus mounted thereon into an incision in a patient such that said finger comes substantially into tactile feedback contact with a bone of said patient, guidingly moving said pin via said guide apparatus such that said pin comes into contact with said bone of said patient, and inserting said pin a distance into said bone of said patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.