Description: BACKGROUND 1. Technical Field The embodiments herein generally relate to medical devices, and, more particularly, to an anti back-out mechanism used during orthopedic surgeries. 2. Description of the Related Art Cervical spinal fusion surgeries are often carried out to eliminate motion ...
and that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments by way of example only and is not intended to be limiting of the claimed invention. Also, as used in the specification and including the appended claims, the singular forms “a,”“an,” and “the”...
Patients from the Henry Ford Health System aged ≥18 years undergoing knee and hip arthroplasty (January 1997–June 2007) were identified using Current Procedural Terminology codes from administrative databases. Patients with <18 months of continuous enrollment in the system’s health maintenance ...
The present invention also provides medical kits that include, or that can be used to prepare the flowable biomedical implant compositions of the invention. Such kits can include a dried material containing the solid ingredients of the flowable biomedical implant formulation along with an aqueous med...