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KNEE
BOX
Ideal for TPLO and Basic
Plating procedures:
- Modular screw caddies
hold 2.7 Cortex, 2.7 Locking, 3.5 Locking, 3.5 Cortex and 4.0 Cancellous bone screws.
- State-of-the-Art Graphic
Outlined Instrument Tray holds all the necessary instrumentation for
these procedures.
- Large auxillary space below
leaves room for jigs and ancillary instruments/implants.
Manufactured out of 18 Gauge Stainless Steel for strength and durability.
1st instrument case of its kind designed specifically for the veterinary orthopedic
surgeon.
State-of-the-art Instrument Tray design allows for:
- Customization
to increase practice efficiency
- Eliminates the need for
Mini and Small Fragment Instrument Sets
Screw Caddies:
- Equipped
with screw gauges to measure screws in the case
- Removable lids secure screws
in their location should the case be dropped.
- Thread gauges allow for
opportunity to distinguish sizes.
- Screw
inventory customization provides ample room to customize screw inventory for
frequency of use.
Silk Screened Graphic Outlining
of box, caddies and trays allows for easy placement of instruments and implants.
Autoclavable Rubber Mat in auxillary space protects instruments and devices.
Box Dimensions 15” X 7” X 4 1/8”.
TRACHEAL
RINGS
Patent Pending
- 1st commercially available
ring (patent pending)
- Available in 4 sizes:
small, medium, large, x-large
- Eliminates time consuming
chore of making them
- Elliptical shape provides
significant strength ***
- Cross sectional size and
shape decreases the need for soft tissue dissection.
- Smooth surface and tapered
ends allow atraumatic passage through tissue.
- Reduced need for dissection
decreases the risk of trauma to recurrent laryngeal
nerves and tracheal vasculature.
- Ring width allows greater
number of rings to be placed providing greater
tracheal support.
- Progressive ring sizes
easily accommodate normal changes of tracheal diameter.
- Ring size allows one pass
placement of suture.
- Suture detents minimizes
suture migration.
- Suture detents provide
multiple options for suture placement.
- Suture detents eliminate
the need for holes.
- Use can reduce surgical
time
*** Unpublished study demonstrates that a normal canine trachea supported with
New Generation tracheal rings retains integrity and 90% of luminal diameter of
30cm of mercury vacuum pressure. Normal unsupported canine trachea collapses and
looses 100% of lumen diameter at 2-3 cm of mercury vacuum pressure.
Surgical Technique For
Applying New Generation Prosthetic Tracheal Rings:
New Generation Prosthetic
Tracheal Rings offer many advantages over the old hand-made syringe case prosthesis.
The advantages make ring placement less traumatic, quicker and easier. Here are
a few tips for the use and application of this exciting new product.
- Have all sizes of tracheal
rings available at the time of surgery, this will allow the surgeon to utilize
the ring size which best approximated the outside diameter of the trachea throughout
all segments to be supported.
- Choose the ring size that
most closely approximates the normal outside diameter of the trachea. It is best
for the ring to fit snugly against the tracheal cartilage, therefore downsizing
is preferable to having a loose fit.
- A fine right angle forceps
(Pedfine Mixtar or Krantowitz) can be used to create the soft tissue tunnel around
the dorsal side of the trachea with minimal trauma and tissue handling.
- One of the tapered ends
of the ring is grasped with the forceps, while traction is applied by hand to
the opposite end of the ring; this opens up the ring for passage around the trachea.
- The forceps with the ring
is withdrawn from the soft tissue tunnel and the ring easily slips circumferentially
around the trachea.
- The prosthetic ring is
centered over the desired tracheal cartilage, ensuring a snug fit.
- Sutures may be placed
in one pass fashion through the tracheal carticlage and around the tracheal prosthesis.
- Exact suture placement
is relationship to the ring is not critical as suture detents provide anchoring
every 12 degrees around the circumference of the trachea.
- 4 – 7 sutures of
3-0 or 4-0 size adequately support the trachea.
- Non-absorbable monofilament
suture, 4-0 or 5-0, on a CE-4 or CP-4 needle are appropriate and easily passed.
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