Ceterix Orthopaedics, Inc.

Outcomemd, Inc.

Ceterix Orthopedics, Inc.

Justin D Saliman

Michael J Hendricksen

Michael Murillo

Christopher P Bender

Mark Y Hirotsuka

John G McCutcheon

Alexander Jasso

Yoav Ben-Haim

George V Anastas

Stephen J Peter

Victoria C Quitugua

Sarah-Marie Chan

Jennifer B Fasman

Jason Hurst

Brad S Culbert

Ryan Saliman

Darin Feinstein

Doug Grim

Albert Frates

Douglas Grim

Leonard Coster

Crystal Rutland

Thomas D Mina

Liam McGranahan

Floyd Noel

Karthik Karunanithi

Erik James Shahoian

Chris Norcross Bender

April Miller

Kurt Stremel

Blake Skenandore

Chris Manser

Sarah Downs

Mark S Colella

Chris P Bender

Upon receipt and verification of a patient's key, a medical questionnaire may be provided to a patient via an electronic device (e.g., computer, mobile phone, etc.). A set of responses to the medical questionnaire may be received from the patient and packaged for storage on a blockchain. The packaged set of responses may then be broadcast to the blockchain.

Systems and methods for securely storing patient information and providing access thereto

Sutures with pre-tied knots for use in percutaneous surgical procedures and devices for easily and quickly tying complex suture knots are disclosed.

Pre-tied surgical knots for use with suture passers

Devices, systems and methods for passing a suture. In general, described herein are suturing devices, such as suture passers, as well as methods of suturing tissue. These suture passing devices may include dual deployment suture passers in which a first distal jaw member is moveable at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongate body of the device and the second distal jaw member is retractable proximally to the distal end region of the elongate body and/or the first jaw member.

Suture passer devices and methods

An interface displaying a plurality of previously determined wellness scores for a plurality of patients may be generated and provided to a display device. The patients may each be associated with a patient characteristic, a treatment, and/or a diagnosis. In some instances, the patients may be associated with a particular treatment provider or group of treatment providers and plurality of previously determined wellness scores may enable a treatment provider to quickly view (via the interface) the current wellness of patients under his or her care. In other instances, the plurality of previously determined wellness scores may be associated with a diagnosis and a corresponding treatment so that the interface provides the wellness scores for patients who have undergone the treatment and a viewer may observe how the treatment impacted the wellness scores for the patients.

Systems and methods for determining and providing a display of a plurality of wellness scores for patients with regard to a medical condition and/or a medical treatment

Devices, systems and methods for passing a suture. In general, described herein are suturing devices, such as suture passers, as well as methods of suturing tissue. These suture passing devices may include dual deployment suture passers in which a first distal jaw member is moveable at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongate body of the device and the second distal jaw member is retractable proximally to the distal end region of the elongate body and/or the first jaw member. Also described herein are suture passers in which the tissue penetrator passing the suture travels in an approximately sigmoidal pathway, with the distal end of the tissue penetrator extending distally from one jaw of the device.

A medical questionnaire may be provided to a patient and responses to the medical questionnaire may be scored using a scoring procedure associated with the medical questionnaire. The scored responses may then be used to determine a wellness score for the patient. At times, the medical questionnaire may be treatment, diagnosis, and/or symptom specific and the wellness scores determined from the responses thereto may be used to determine a wellness score regarding the patient's wellness with regard to the treatment, diagnosis, and/or symptom. The wellness score may be provided to the patient, a treatment provider, a treatment facility, and/or a treatment administrator. At times a first and second wellness score may be determined and a difference therebetween may be used to determine an improvement score.

Systems and methods for determining a wellness score, an improvement score, and/or an effectiveness score with regard to a medical condition and/or treatment

Methods for repairing a meniscus, and particularly a torn meniscus. A method of repairing a meniscus may include using a suture passer to pass a suturing element from the region between the superior surface of the meniscus and the femoral condyle, through the meniscus tissue, into the region between the inferior surface of the meniscus and the tibial plateau, across the inferior surface of the meniscus, and back to the superior surface of the meniscus, without deeply penetrating the posterior capsular region of the knee. Equivalently, the suture element may be passed from the inferior surface of the meniscus to the superior surface and back to the inferior surface.

Meniscus repair

Methods for suturing tissue by forming a locking loop of suture material. In particular, method of using a suture passer to arthroscopically create a locking loop of suture in difficult to access tissues. As used herein a locking loop of suture is a loop of suture that is passed through a tissue from a first side to a second side of the tissue; one or more of the legs of the loop extending from the first side are passed through the tissue to the second side of the tissue and are then passed through the loop, and the loop is cinched to tighten closed over the one or more legs. The resulting locking loops stitches are extremely strong and distribute the stresses across the tissue in a desirable manner.

Suture methods for forming locking loops stitches

Described herein are methods and apparatuses for use in repair of a patient's tissue by connecting the tissue to the bone using a transosteal tunnel and anchor configured to pass through the transosteal tunnel. In particular, described herein are methods of repairing an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and torn meniscal root. These anchoring apparatuses and method of using them are particularly well suited for use with the low-profile suture passers described herein, since these suture passers may allow access to previously inaccessible regions of the knee (or other body regions).

Transosteal anchoring methods for tissue repair

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Beverly Hills, CA, United States of America

Justin D Saliman