Patent ID: 8734450

Claim:
A surgical saw blade for use in orthopaedic surgery, the saw blade comprising: a blade body having a proximal end and a distal end, the blade body having a mounting cavity extending distally from the proximal end, the blade body having teeth at the distal end for sawing, wherein the blade body has opposing walls that define the mounting cavity, the mounting cavity having a first substantially triangular-shaped opening and a second substantially triangular-shaped opening in communication with, and inverted relative to, the first opening, the first and second openings collectively define two mounting slots that form an angle relative to one another, and wherein the opposing walls have first edges extending along two sides of the first substantially triangular-shaped opening and second edges extending along two sides of the second substantially triangular-shaped opening, wherein each of the first edges meets one of the second edges at a corner to define an obtuse angle.