US 11,986,357 B2
Surgical instrument handle with implant sizing feature and method of using
Brian C. Hodorek, Winona Lake, IN (US); Matt J. Purdy, Winona Lake, IN (US); J. Michael Wiater, Beverly Hills, MI (US); Anand M. Murthi, Baltimore, MD (US); Matthew J. Smith, Columbia, MO (US); Derek J. Cuff, Venice, FL (US); and Andrew Jawa, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Synthes GMBH, Oberdorf (CH)
Filed by Synthes GmbH, Oberdorf (CH)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/568,904.
Application 17/568,904 is a division of application No. 16/560,923, filed on Sep. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,241,293.
Application 16/560,923 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/245,191, filed on Jan. 10, 2019, granted, now 11,147,542, issued on Oct. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/638,240, filed on Mar. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0125547 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/56 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/06 (2016.02) [A61B 17/1659 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0042 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00464 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00831 (2013.01); A61B 2017/564 (2013.01); A61B 2090/035 (2016.02); A61B 2090/061 (2016.02); A61B 2090/062 (2016.02)] 10 Claims
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
attaching a working shaft to a handle, wherein the working shaft includes a shaft body and a sounder supported by the shaft body;
resecting a proximal radius to define a resected bone;
inserting the resected bone into a plurality of sizing cavities of the handle until the resected bone is placed in a select sizing cavity among the plurality of sizing cavities that matches a size of the resected bone; and
selecting an implant for a proximal radius having a head that corresponds to the size of the resected bone.