Patent ID: 9050137
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An interchangeable orthopedic blade for placing in, without excessive damage to, a bone of a patient when repairing a fracture in the bone of the patient by cooperating with either a K-wire or a screw configured to be pre-installed into the bone of the patient, so as to provide absolute stable fixation by holding the fracture in its anatomic position and resist applied forces while healing, to thereby provide a stable anatomic restoration and eliminate a need for revision surgery due to failure of fixation or malunion, and for further cooperating with an applicable interchangeable plate when an applicable interchangeable plate is used, said blade comprising: a) an internal portion; and b) an external portion; wherein said internal portion is for threading onto either the pre-installed K-wire or the pre-installed screw for placing said interchangeable orthopedic blade in, without excessive damage to, the bone of the patient when repairing the fracture in the bone of the patient and ultimately provide absolute stable fixation by said interchangeable orthopedic blade configured for holding the fracture in its anatomic position and resisting applied forces while healing, to thereby provide a stable anatomic restoration and eliminate a need for revision surgery due to failure of fixation or malunion; wherein said internal portion is received in said external portion; and wherein said internal portion rotates within said external portion, but has said external portion configured to move non-rotatably axially with said internal portion into the bone of the patient as said internal portion threads onto either the pre-installed K-wire or the pre-installed screw; wherein said internal portion is a slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve; wherein said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion has: a) a proximal end; b) a distal end; and c) internal threads; wherein said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion has a collared proximal end; wherein said external portion is a slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve; wherein said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion has: a) a proximal end; and b) a distal end; wherein said distal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion is at least one of a tapered and a fluted distal end; wherein said at least one of said tapered and said fluted distal end of said distal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion is for facilitating passage of said at least one of said tapered and said fluted distal end through the bone of the patient during threading of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion onto either the K-wire or the screw; wherein said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion is a ring-like proximal end defined at least by a shoulder; wherein said external portion has at least one fin, said at least one fin projecting radially outward from said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion; and wherein said at least one fin of said external portion extends axially from said at least one of said tapered and said fluted distal end of said distal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion to past said ring-like proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion so as to be flush with said collared proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion, and wherein an extension of said at least one fin of said external portion extending proximally from said ring-like proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion, and extends divergently radially outward from said ring-like proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion so as to form at least one diverging fin extension to flush with said collared proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion when said proximal collard end of said end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said internal portion rests against said at least a shoulder defined by said ring-like proximal end of said proximal end of said slender, elongated, and generally cylindrically shaped sleeve of said external portion.