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US 2019/0167326 A1Published application
Attachment device and method for use
AssigneeStout Medical Group, L.P.
InventorsE. Skott GREENHALGH, Robert A. KIEFER
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Abstract
Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be fenestrated. The fenestrations can control the flow of fluid out of and/or into the device.
Claims20
A method for implanting an anatomical attachment device comprising:
- inserting the anatomical attachment device at least partially into a bone at a target site, wherein the attachment device has an attachment device lumen and an attachment device first fenestration in fluid communication with the attachment device lumen and the target site, and wherein a pressure reduction device is in the attachment device lumen, and wherein the pressure reduction device has a pressure reduction first fenestration;
- pressurizing a bone cement into the attachment device lumen, wherein the pressurizing comprises flowing bone cement through the attachment device lumen, then flowing the bone cement through the pressure reduction device first fenestration, then flowing the bone cement through the attachment device first fenestration, then flowing the bone cement into the target site;
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- wherein the pressure of the bone cement decreases when the bone cement passes through the pressure reduction first fenestration, and wherein the pressure reduction first fenestration is on a lateral side of the pressure reduction device, and wherein the pressure reduction device has a pressure reduction second fenestration on the lateral side of the pressure reduction device and at least 90° away from the pressure reduction first fenestration with respect to a longitudinal axis of the pressure reduction device.
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A method for implanting a bone screw comprising:
- inserting the bone screw into a bone at a target site, wherein the bone screw has a helical thread, a bone screw lumen, and a bone screw first fenestration, and wherein a pressure reduction device is fixedly attached to or integral with the bone screw, and wherein the pressure reduction device is at least partially in the bone screw lumen, and wherein the pressure reduction device has a pressure reduction first fenestration on a lateral side of the pressure reduction device.
A method for implanting a bone screw comprising:
- fixedly attaching or integrating a pressure reduction device to the distal end of a syringe, wherein the pressure reduction device has a lateral pressure reduction first fenestration;
- inserting the bone screw into a target site, wherein the bone screw has a bone screw lumen, and a bone screw lateral fenestration;
- inserting the pressure reduction device into the bone screw lumen, wherein the inserting of the pressure reduction device comprises positioning at least a portion of the syringe adjacent to the bone screw lumen;
- delivering a bone cement from the syringe, through the pressure reduction device in the bone screw lumen, and through the bone screw lateral fenestration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.