Patent ID: 9011457
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An aiming guide for aligning at least one surgical tool with a hole in a bone plate, comprising: an arm portion having a longitudinal axis, top and bottom surfaces, and first and second ends, and at least one bore extending through the arm portion from the top surface to the bottom surface, wherein an axis defined by the at least one bore is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the arm portion; a tool guide having a longitudinal axis and a channel in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the tool guide, wherein the tool guide is configured and adapted for insertion through the arm portion to a first target location of the bone plate; and a handle attached to the first end of the arm portion at a first end and to the bone plate at a second end, the handle coupling to the bone plate only in a predetermined alignment relative thereto, the predetermined alignment of the handle determining an aiming alignment of the arm portion in which the at least one bore of the arm portion is aligned with a corresponding hole in the bone plate, the handle including a recess on a distal end thereof shaped to receive the bone plate in the predetermined alignment, the second end of the handle having a width greater than a width of the bone plate so that the second end straddles the bone plate.