Patent ID: 7993341

Claim:
A surgical system for use at a distal end of a femur adjacent to a knee joint, the system comprising: a surgical navigation system including means for tracking the position of an object during a surgical procedure; a distal femoral cut guide including means for mounting the distal femoral cut guide to the distal end of the femur, the distal femoral cut guide including means for guiding a cutter to cut a planar surface on the distal end of the femur; a base member mounted to the distal femoral cut guide for sliding along a first adjustment axis; a connecting link mounted to the base member for sliding along a second adjustment axis; a datum guide member including means for establishing a datum relative to the distal end of the femur for guiding a subsequent surgical component, the datum guide member including means for being tracked by the surgical navigation system to guide positioning of the datum guide member at a desired position relative to the femur, the datum guide member being mounted to the connecting link for pivoting about a third adjustment axis such that the datum guide member may be pivoted about the third adjustment axis to adjust an interior-exterior rotation angle of the datum guide member in a plane, the connecting link may be translated along the second adjustment axis to adjust a medial-lateral position of the datum guide member in the plane, and the base member may be translated along the first adjustment axis to adjust an anterior-posterior position of the datum guide in the plane.