Axial surgical trajectory guide, and method of guiding a medical device

Patent Number: 9387008

Patent Date: 2016-07-12

Patent type: utility

A surgical trajectory guide to guide a medical device to a pivot point has a base that can be attached to a patient, an axial guide member connected with the base and aligned with a pivot point along a first axis in fixed relation to the base and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The guide member has a longitudinal axis, and is connected to the base such that the longitudinal axis always passes through the pivot point, and the axial guide member is prevented from rotating around the longitudinal axis. The guide further has at least one electronic angle sensor that can automatically sense a first angle of the axial guide member relative to the local gravity vector about the first axis and a second angle of the axial guide member relative to the local gravity vector about the second axis without having to level the base.

Inventors

First Name Last Name City State Country
Klaus Welte - - -
Hans Schoepp - - -
Amir Sarvestani - - -

IPCs

Section Class Sub Class Group Sub Group
A 61 B 5 05
A 61 B 17 34
A 61 B 19 00
A 61 B 17 00

Assignee

Organization First Name Last Name City State Country
Stryker European Holdings I, LLC - - - - -