Patent ID: 9439659
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. An orthopedic device comprising: a patient-specific alignment guide including: first and second patient-specific portions, each portion having a patient-specific surface preoperatively configured to mate as a negative of a respective portion of an iliac crest of a pelvis of a specific patient and mate to the respective portion of the iliac crest only in one position; first and second iliac guiding elements connected to the first and second patient-specific portions, respectively, at first releasable connections such that the entire first and second iliac guiding elements can be detached from the first and second patient-specific portions, each iliac guiding element having a through opening and a preoperatively configured orientation and location relative to the respective first or second patient-specific portion for drilling a bone bore in the bone of the patient from the iliac crest of the patient into an iliac wing of the patient to direct a bone screw at the preoperatively configured orientation and location for sacroiliac fixation; and a bridge connected to both of the first and second patient-specific portions at second releasable connections.