Patent ID: 9427271
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method for installation of a screw within a human bone, said method comprising the steps of: providing an installation tube having; inserting a first guide wire into a target location of a human bone; placing the first end of the first hollow portion of the tube over the first guide wire; lowering the tube along the first guide wire; connecting the first end of the first hollow portion of the tube into the bone; removing the first guide wire; inserting a second guide wire having an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the first guide wire through the elongated hollow portions of the tube and into the target location of the bone; disconnecting the tube and removing the tube, leaving the second guide wire within the target location of the bone; lowering a threaded cannulated screw over the second guide wire into the target location of the bone, the screw having a maximum threaded outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the first guide wire and the outer diameter of the threaded end of the first elongated hollow portion of the tube; rotating the screw into the bone at the target location, fixing the screw in the bone; and removing the second guide wire.