Patent ID: 8425531
Filing Date: 2013-04-23
Classification: A61B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An electromagnetically guided spinal rod system for placing a spinal rod into screw heads of screws positioned in bone material, the spinal rod system comprising: an elongated, tubular-shaped screw inserter having a top portion with signal relay junctions located on opposite sides of the top portion and a pair of opposed rod access slots extending longitudinally for a length along the screw inserter; a rod detection system adjacent to the rod access slots of the screw inserter and electrically coupled to the signal relay junctions; and a rod pusher having a handle and a curved portion with a spinal rod receiver adapted for coupling one end of a spinal rod to the spinal rod receiver wherein the curved portion is sized to guide the curved portion with the spinal rod transversely from a position external to the rod access slots of the screw inserter into and through the rod access slots, the rod detection system adapted to electrically detect the proximity of the spinal rod relative to the rod access slots and the screw inserter.