Globus Medical, Inc.

Catherine Krawiec

Damien Kahmer

George Yacoub

Chad Glerum

Peter Evans

Jared Carboy

Mary Siepierski

Smart surgical instrument patches, instruments, systems, and methods. The smart surgical instrument patch may include a flexible substrate with electronic components electronically connected to one another. The electronic components may include one or more sensors, a processor, a power source, and a wireless communication unit. The patch may be affixed to an instrument, such as an inserter for installing an expandable implant. During operation of the instrument, the smart surgical instrument patch may provide real time information to the user, such as amount of implant expansion and lordosis profile.

Smart surgical instrument patch, instruments, and methods of application

Expandable fusion devices, systems, and methods. The expandable fusion device includes one or more integrated deployable retention spikes configured to resist expulsion of the device when installed in the intervertebral disc space. The implant may include upper and lower main endplates, an actuator assembly configured to cause an expansion in height of the upper and lower main endplates, and a sidecar assembly including a sidecar carrier, an upper carrier endplate engaged with an upper spike, and a lower carrier endplate engaged with a lower spike such that forward translation of the sidecar carrier pushes against the upper and lower carrier endplates, thereby deploying the upper and lower spikes.

Expandable fusion device with integrated deployable retention spikes

A graft delivery device includes a graft delivery tube having a main passage for delivering graft material to a surgical implant inserted between adjacent vertebrae of a spine. The graft delivery tube includes an articulating portion proximate an output end of the graft delivery tube. The graft delivery device also includes a pusher device slidable along the main passage to drive graft material through the main passage toward the output end of the graft delivery tube, an actuation wire extending axially through at least the articulating portion of the graft delivery tube, and an actuation device connected to the actuation wire. The actuation device is actuatable to pull the actuation wire. Moreover, pulling the actuation wire bends the articulating portion of the graft delivery tube and positions the output end proximate the surgical implant.

Articulating graft delivery

Expandable fusion devices, systems, and methods. The expandable fusion device includes one or more integrated deployable retention spikes configured to resist expulsion of the device when installed in the intervertebral disc space. The implant may include upper and lower main endplates, an actuator assembly configured to cause an expansion in height of the upper and lower main endplates, and a sidecar assembly including a sidecar carrier, an upper carrier endplate pivotably coupled to an upper spike, and a lower carrier endplate pivotably coupled to a lower spike such that forward translation of the sidecar carrier pushes against the upper and lower carrier endplates, thereby deploying the upper and lower spikes.

Implants, systems, and methods of reverse dynamization. The implants, such as expandable spinal implants, bone plates, and intramedullary nails, are securable to bone. The implant may have a moveable component creating a semi-rigid configuration to allow for micro-motion of the bone for a period of time. The moveable component is changeable, for example, based on material properties, change of state, or mechanical or electrical operation, to a static condition creating a rigid configuration to prevent subsequent movement of the bone. The reverse dynamization implants may be used to accelerate bone healing and obtain superior bone fracture healing.

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Conshohocken, PA, United States of America

Catherine Krawiec