Patent ID: 8043297
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A device for aligning at least one surgical tool with a hole in a bone plate extending along a longitudinal axis, the device comprising: a handle portion including a coupling structure for coupling the handle portion to a bone plate in a desired orientation relative thereto; an arm portion extending along an arm portion longitudinal axis between first and second ends, the arm portion being coupleable to the handle portion in a desired orientation relative thereto, wherein, when coupled to the handle portion in the desired orientation, the arm portion longitudinal axis extends transverse to a longitudinal axis of the handle portion, the arm portion defining top and bottom surfaces and including a first bore extending through the arm portion from the top surface to the bottom surface, wherein an axis defined by the first bore is transverse to the arm portion longitudinal axis; and a first tool guide extending along a first tool guide longitudinal axis from the first bore of the arm portion toward a bone plate coupled to the handle portion, the first tool guide defining a first channel, wherein the first bore and the first tool guide are configured and adapted to permit the first tool guide to be received in the first bore in a selected one of two different preset positions, each of the selected preset positions offsets the first tool guide longitudinal axis from a center of the first bore in a different direction.