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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2017
Applicant:
Orthovita, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Wyatt Drake Geist, Davie, FL (US);
Arden Allen Geist, Sr., Indialantic, FL (US);
Assignee:
Orthovita, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 29/00 (2005.12); A61B 17/88 (2005.12); A61B 17/56 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/8897 (2012.12);
Abstract
A surgical guide wire or K-wire and method of use are provided. The K-wire or guide wire has opposite end portions and a shank portion in between. One end portion has a deformable end portion that, once outside of a confining guide passage, can be deformed to present a projected forward facing area that is larger than the transverse cross section of the K-wire or guide wire while in the passage. The increased area will provide increased resistance to additional forward axial movement into the surgical site.