Patent ID: 9579113
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A method of surgically preparing a proximal end of a tibia, the method comprising: attaching a stem trial to an end of a surgical reamer to form an intramedullary orthopaedic surgical instrument, inserting the intramedullary orthopaedic surgical instrument into a medullary canal of the tibia, securing a housing of an attachment device to the intramedullary orthopaedic surgical instrument, sliding a mounting frame along a rail of the attachment device toward the housing, attaching a cutting block to the mounting frame, the cutting block having a cutting guide defined therein, resecting the proximal end of the tibia using the cutting guide to form a surgically-prepared surface, removing the intramedullary orthopaedic surgical instrument from the medullary canal, attaching the stem trial to a modular stem, and securing the modular stem and the stem trial to the tibial base trial, wherein inserting the intramedullary orthopaedic surgical instrument into the medullary canal includes reaming the proximal end of the tibia with the surgical reamer, and wherein positioning the tibial base trial on the surgically-prepared surface includes inserting the modular stem and the stem trial into the medullary canal.