Sternotomy cable and method

Details Sternotomy cable and method Sternotomy cable and method

1992-06-22

1994-06-07

Hafer, Robert A.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

A61B 1700

Patent

active

053185668

ABSTRACT:
A curved needle with a flexible leader wire and a multi-stranded cable fastened to the leader wire is passed through one half of a vertically split sternum from in front of the one half of the sternum to the back of the one half and then across behind the sternum to the back of the other half of the sternum and then forward to a location in front of the other half of the sternum. A crimp on the trailing end of the cable abuts one side of a stop bar in front of the sternum. The needle and other end of the cable are passed from the other side of the bar through an aperture in the bar. The needle is then separated from the leader. This procedure is repeated at the desired number of vertically spaced sites on the sternum. Then the sternum halves are brought together. Each of the cables is tensioned to hold the sternum together, and a crimp is swaged onto the cable at the other side of the bar whereby the crimp holds the cable in tension. Then the extra cable is cut off.

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"Danek Songer Cable System" flyer form No. LIT-SONG Feb. 1 1990, published by Danek Medical Inc., 3092 Directors Row, Memphis, TN, 38131.

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