Patent ID: 8430932
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A total knee arthroplasty system for use in a total knee arthroplasty procedure, comprising; a first cutting guide including at least one planar guide surface adapted for guiding an oscillating saw blade to cut a distal femur of a patient; an alignment guide that operably determines alignment of the first cutting guide, the alignment guide including a body adapted to be positioned on the femur to simultaneously contact an articular surface of a non-resected medial condyle, an articular surface of a non-resected lateral condyle and an anterior cortex of the femur, wherein the alignment guide provides for markings to be made in the femur that are subsequently referenced by the first cutting guide after removal of the alignment guide from the femur to dictate a location and orientation of the first cutting guide for creating at least one resected surface on the femur; and a femoral prosthetic implant adapted to be implanted on the at least one resected surface, the implant comprising: