Surgical assistance device
OwnerW. Joseph GORUMinventor
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Abstract
A surgical assistance device has a ring band that is worn on a surgeon's finger from which opposed clasp jaws extend. The opposed clasp jaws define a channel configured to receive a guidewire to be inserted into a patient's bone. The surgeon locates a desired entry point for the guidewire with his or her finger on which the ring band is worn, and thereby positions the channel of the device to receive the guidewire so that such guidewire when inserted through the channel is directed in the desired entry point and into the patient. The surgeon maintains his or her finger at the desired location during guidewire insertion, and then detaches the device from the installed guidewire by separating the opposed clasp jaws.
Claims27
A surgical assistance device, comprising:
- a substantially ring-shaped band;
- a first clasp jaw extending outwardly from the band and having a prong end;
- a second clasp jaw extending outwardly from the band and having a first prong end and a second prong end, said first prong end and said second prong end being spaced apart, wherein at least a portion of the first clasp jaw is configured to be received between the first prong end and the second prong end of the second clasp jaw, with the first clasp jaw and the second clasp jaw when so engaged together forming a channel configured to receive a guidewire;
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- wherein one or more of the prong end of the first clasp jaw and the first prong end and the second prong end of the second clasp jaw are movable in relation to one another.
A surgical assistance device, comprising:
- a substantially ring-shaped band;
- a first clasp jaw extending outwardly from the band and having a prong end;
- a second clasp jaw extending outwardly from the band and having a first prong end, wherein the prong end of the first clasp jaw opposingly faces the first prong end of the second clasp jaw, with the first clasp jaw and the second clasp jaw when engaged together or in contact with one another forming a channel configured to receive a guidewire;
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- wherein one or more of the prong end of the first clasp jaw and the first prong end of the second clasp jaw are movable in relation to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.