Magnetically assisted surgical wiring and cabling passer devices

Details Magnetically assisted surgical wiring and cabling passer devices Magnetically assisted surgical wiring and cabling passer devices

1999-04-21

2000-07-11

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

A61B 1758

Patent

active

060865962

ABSTRACT:
A surgical passer device is provided for passing a wire or cable around or along a bone of a patient. The passer device comprises two separate passer members which are curved such that, when they are joined, they fit around the bone. In one embodiment, both curved members are cannulated and include permanent magnets at the distal ends thereof which, when magnetically engaged, bring the cannulated members into alignment so that a cable or wire can be passed therethrough. The members are then withdrawn, leaving the cable around the bone. In a further embodiment, a cable with a tip magnet is loaded into a curved cannulated passer member with the magnet exposed and a further curved passer member is used to capture the tip magnet and pull it around the bone. In one implementation, the further member is a malleable rod that can be bent into a suitable curved shape.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1641077 (1927-08-01), Fouquet
patent: 4312337 (1982-01-01), Donohue
patent: 5851209 (1998-12-01), Kummer et al.

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