Inventors:
John Xinghai Wang - Fort Worth TX, US
Hung Van Bach - Flower Mound TX, US
Donna J. Burnette - Fort Worth TX, US
Walter Raymond Blackwell - Keller TX, US
Weiguo Chen - Bedford TX, US
S. Shane Dexter - Keller TX, US
Vikram August Garadi - Fort Worth TX, US
Kevin L. Haney - Fort Worth TX, US
Joseph William Lopez - North Richland Hills TX, US
R. Mitchell Sherry - Fort Worth TX, US
Paul Cihak - Grapevine TX, US
Durrell Tidwell - Burleson TX, US
Assignee:
Medtronic PS Medical, Inc. - Fort Worth TX
International Classification:
A61B 17/14
Abstract:
A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.