Robert D Mclain

US Patent:

8449582, May 28, 2013

Filed:

Feb 28, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/711938

Inventors:

Robert F. McLain - Pepper Pike OH, US

Assignee:

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Cleveland OH

International Classification:

A61B 17/88

US Classification:

606281

Abstract:

In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method of implanting a fusion plate, having at least two primary fastener openings, into a patient is described. According to the inventive method, a throat of the patient is dissected, providing access through the throat dissection to a spinal column of the patient. The fusion plate is inserted into the throat dissection, and the fusion plate is then positioned in an asymmetrical relationship with a sagittal plane of the spinal column. A first primary fastener is inserted through a first primary fastener opening of the fusion plate and into the first vertebra. A second primary fastener is inserted through a second primary fastener opening of the fusion plate and into the second vertebra. A cervical fusion apparatus is also disclosed.

US Patent:

20080119759, May 22, 2008

Filed:

Nov 12, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/938386

Inventors:

Robert F. McLain - Pepper Pike OH, US

International Classification:

A61B 10/00
A61B 17/56
A61B 17/58

US Classification:

600567, 606104, 606 73

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for use in aspirating bone marrow is provided. The apparatus comprises a tube which has a body with a distal end portion. The tube has a central opening at one end of a central passage extending through the tube and through which bone marrow is aspirated. The tube is also tapered. A thread convolution on the body of the tube at the distal end portion of the tube is also provided as an alternate design. At least one aspiration opening between the central opening and the thread convolution is used to further aspirate bone marrow.