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US 8,986,354 B2Granted
Surgical kit for spinal surgery
AssigneeZavation, LLC
InventorJohn Lawrence Walker
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a surgical drill guide having an anchoring mechanism for locking the drill guide to a bone plate. The anchoring mechanism is adapted to be received through an opening of a bone plate and rotated to lock the drill guide to the bone plate. The anchoring mechanism can be rotated by a driver, which has a distal end key that fits into a corresponding socket of on the proximal portion of the anchoring mechanism. The present invention also relates to a kit including a bone plate, a driver, and the drill guide and a method for using the kit to perform surgery.
Claims17
A surgical kit comprising:
- a driver comprising:
- a handle at a proximal end, and a key at a distal end;
- a bone plate comprising:
- a front surface and a back surface, the back surface adapted to contact a bone and having walls defining at least one hole, the at least one hole defining a cut out area;
- an opening for receiving a rotatable anchoring member therein;
- a plurality of screw holes each configured to receive a screw therethrough;
- at least one screw lock comprising a socket to turn the at least one screw lock between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the key of the driver is sized to engage the socket of the screw lock, wherein the at least one screw lock is compressed by the walls of the hole when the at least one screw lock it in the unlocked position and it is configured to not expand into the cut out area in the unlocked position and decompresses into the cut out area when the at least one screw lock is in the locked position;
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- a plurality of screws having a head and a threaded shaft, each screw comprising a socket on the head thereof, wherein the key of the driver is sized to engage the socket of the screws;
- and
- a drill guide comprising the rotatable anchoring member comprising a proximal portion having a socket and distal portion having a flared distal end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.