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AssigneeSpinal Surgical Strategies, Inc., a Nevada corporation d/b/a Kleiner Device Labs
InventorsAlan Burkholder, Gregory Causey, Lucas Simmons, Jeffrey Kleiner, Edward John Grimberg
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Surgical instruments that facilitate articulation of a scraping tool within a surgical space (e.g., a vertebrae), and are configured to remain locked in position when scraping and removing tissue. The surgical instruments include a handle and a retention shaft that insertably engages the handle. The retention shaft includes a split distal end having flexible first and second portions that include means for securing a removeable tip therebetween, the tip being configured to scrape/remove tissue and insertably engage the split distal end between the first and second portions. A pivot lock mechanism engages the handle and receives the retention shaft therein with means for moving same axially. The surgical instrument is moveable between an unlocked state in which the tip is moveable relative to the split distal end when secured therein, and a locked state in which the tip is not moveable relative to the split distal end when secured therein.
A surgical instrument comprising:
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