Surgical wire driver with one-handed gripping attachment

Details Surgical wire driver with one-handed gripping attachment Surgical wire driver with one-handed gripping attachment

1997-05-01

1999-05-11

Tucker, Guy V.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

A61B17/56

Patent

active

059023066

ABSTRACT:
A wire driver collet mechanism for selectively enabling the repositioning of a wire within a wire driver. The adjustable collet mechanism enables the wire to be repositioned under its own weight so that a user is not required to grasp the wire, thereby enabling one-handed operation of the wire driver. A method of adjusting a wire within a wire driver utilizes the steps of positioning the tip of a wire against a surface and allowing the wire to move under its own weight while moving the wire driver to position the wire as desired The release of the wire is under the control of the hand holding the wire driver.

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