Patent ID: 8512363
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A bladed surgical instrument guide for receiving a wire onto the bladed surgical instrument, and for guiding the travel of a bladed surgical instrument along the wire; the guide comprising: a pair of wire guides, each extending from a bladed surgical instrument; the bladed surgical instrument includes a forward end and a rearward end; the pair of wire guides includes a forward guide located proximate to the forward end of the bladed surgical instrument, and a rearward guide located proximate to the rearward end of the bladed surgical instrument; the forward guide with a forward guide length parallel to a guide centerline, the guide centerline defined as a path that a wire follows through the pair of wire guides, when the wire is engaged by and seated within the pair of wire guides, and the forward guide includes a narrow fore-channel portion located proximate to the forward end of the bladed surgical instrument, and the forward guide includes a wide back-channel portion located toward the rearward end of the bladed surgical instrument, and the forward wire guide expands from the narrow fore-channel portion to the wide back-channel portion, along the forward guide length; the rearward guide with a rearward guide length parallel to the guide centerline, and the rearward guide includes a narrow back-channel portion located proximate to the rearward end of the bladed surgical instrument, and the rearward guide includes a wide fore-channel portion located toward the forward end of the bladed surgical instrument, and the rearward wire guide expands from the narrow back-channel portion to the wide fore-channel portion, along the rearward guide length; a medial gap between the forward guide and the rearward guide; the wire engaged by the pair of wire guides with an oblique placement of a continuous length of the wire into the medial gap, followed by a rotation of the bladed surgical instrument to a substantially parallel placement in relation to the continuous length of the wire, without threading an end of the wire through the pair of wire guides, and the wire seated within the pair of wire guides in the substantially parallel placement; and the bladed surgical instrument re-positionable in a guided movement along the continuous length of the wire.