US 11,751,890 B2
Drilling platform tool for surgeries
Wolfgang Fischler, Innsbruck (AT)
Assigned to MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH, Innsbruck (AT)
Appl. No. 16/651,202
Filed by MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH, Innsbruck (AT)
PCT Filed Oct. 5, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/054633
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 26, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/071141, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/585,717, filed on Nov. 14, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/569,023, filed on Oct. 6, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0196289 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/17 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1739 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1703 (2013.01); A61N 1/0541 (2013.01); A61B 17/0218 (2013.01); A61B 17/1771 (2016.11); A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3407 (2013.01); A61B 2034/108 (2016.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical guide tool comprising:
a non patient-specific platform including one or more supports configured to attach to a body part of a subject;
a non patient-specific block having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface, the block including a guide aperture extending from the top planar surface to the bottom planar surface for guiding a surgical instrument in making at least one of a cut and a drill hole, and
an intermediate module removably positioned between the platform and the block such that the block rests on top of the intermediate module without being inserted into the intermediate module, the intermediate module having patient-specific dimensions, and configured such that the guide aperture has a desired alignment relative to the body part when the surgical guide tool is attached to the body part of the subject and the intermediate module is positioned between the platform and the block.