US 12,290,288 B2
Surgical device for insertion of guide wire and pedicle screw
Wyatt Drake Geist, Davie, FL (US); and Steven Vanni, North Miami, FL (US)
Assigned to Integrity Implants Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed by Integrity Implants Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/938,722.
Application 17/938,722 is a division of application No. 16/723,221, filed on Dec. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,484,351.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/783,007, filed on Dec. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0110238 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/70 (2006.01); A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 17/90 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/7082 (2013.01) [A61B 17/8875 (2013.01); A61B 17/8897 (2013.01); A61B 17/90 (2021.08)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical tool for insertion of a guide wire and a bone screw comprising:
a surgical tool including a hand grip, said surgical tool including a first end and a second end, said first end including a cannulated driving tool, said second end including said hand grip comprising a first hand grip portion, said hand grip being cannulated such that said hand grip cannula and said driving tool cannula are aligned along a longitudinal axis of said surgical tool forming a guide path, a slide assembly having a second hand grip portion and an elongated guide wire extending outwardly from said second hand grip portion, said guide wire sized to extend through said cannula and having a length sufficient to extend through said guide path to protrude from said first end of said driving tool, a distal end of said driving tool including a shaped driver which is constructed to cooperate with a bone screw to allow said bone screw to be rotated into or out of a bone with manual rotation of said hand grip, said shaped driver constructed and arranged to be locked to said bone screw so that said bone screw is axially aligned with said longitudinal axis, said bone screw including a cannula extending along the longitudinal axis of said bone screw, wherein said guide wire is configured to be positioned to extend through said surgical tool and said bone screw, said guide wire having a sharp tip allowing said surgical tool, when assembled with said bone screw and said guide wire, to be inserted through the skin of a patient in-vivo to position said sharp tip adjacent a bone, said surgical tool utilized to provide a trajectory for said guide wire and said bone screw for insertion of said bone screw into a bone;
wherein the guide wire includes a non-round shape and said guide path includes an inner shape constructed and arranged to cooperate with the non-round shape of the guide wire to allow rotation of said guide wire together with said surgical tool such that rotation of the hand grip results in rotation of the guide wire.