Apparatus, system, and method for instrumentation
AssigneeTreace Medical Concepts, Inc.
InventorsAdam D. PERLER, James Q. SPITLER
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Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for remediating a condition present in a patient. In certain implementations, the device may include a body having a medial side, a lateral side, a superior side, an inferior side, an anterior side, and a posterior side. In addition, the device may include a bone engagement surface on a bone-facing side of the body, the bone engagement surface configured to engage a surface of a patient. The device may include a bone attachment feature configured to couple the body to a long bone of the patient. Moreover, the device may include a resection feature that guides resection of the long bone to separate a malleolus from the long bone.
Claims20
An apparatus for remediating a condition present in a patient, the apparatus comprising:
- a body;
- a bone engagement surface on a bone-facing side of the body, the bone engagement surface configured to engage a surface of a patient;
- a bone attachment feature configured to couple the body to a long bone of the patient;
- and
- a resection feature that guides resection of the long bone to separate a malleolus from the long bone.
An osteotomy system for remediating a condition present in a patient, comprising:
- a resection guide comprising:
- one or more bone attachment features configured to couple the resection guide to a bone;
- and
- a resection feature that guides resection of the bone to dissect the bone into a proximal fragment and distal fragment;
- and
- a fixation guide comprising one or more openings that indicate a path for fasteners through the distal fragment and into the proximal fragment of the bone.
A method for performing a malleolar osteotomy, the method comprising:
- anchoring a resection guide to a surface of a long bone and proximal to a malleolus of the long bone, the resection guide comprising a bone engagement surface configured to register to the surface of the long bone;
- deploying one or more guide pins through the pin guide sleeves of a fixation guide and into the long bone;
- deploying fasteners coaxial with the openings;
- dissecting an osteotomy fragment from the long bone;
- retracting the osteotomy fragment inferiorly from the long bone to expose a portion of a talus, the osteotomy fragment including the malleolus;
- reducing the osteotomy fragment with the long bone;
- redeploying one or more guide pins into the one or more openings of the osteotomy fragment and the long bone;
- and
- deploying fasteners coaxial with the one or more openings to fix the osteotomy fragment to the long bone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.