Insertion instruments and method for delivering a vertebral body spacer

US6159215A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DePuy Acromed · US

Inventors

• David Urbahns · Beachwood, US
• Dale Davison · Naples, US
• Kenneth Danylchuk · Pueblo, US
• James C. Luczak · Pueblo, US
• Ronald Moskovich · Mamaroneck, US
• Thomas S. Camino · Warsaw, US
• Joel Rhoades · Pierceton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2002/4628
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A spacer-insertion instrument for delivering a spacer to a spine is disclosed. The instrument includes a handle portion and a guide coupled to the handle portion. The instrument further includes a shaft coupled to the handle portion and extending along the guide. The instrument further includes a tip including an attachment end portion coupled to the shaft and opposing fingers movable relative to one another and adapted to grasp the spacer when the shaft is moved to actuate the fingers. The handle portion includes a grip and a trigger coupled to the grip and to the shaft and movement of the trigger toward the grip causes the fingers to move toward one another. A method for delivering a vertebral body spacer to a disc space formed in a spine between adjacent vertebral bodies is also disclosed.