Standard
An external fixation device is used to keep fractured bones stabilized and in alignment. The device is adjusted externally to ensure the bones remain in an optimal position during the healing process.
An external fixator system comprises a clamp adapted to couple a fixator pin to a connecting rod. The clamp includes a slot for transversely receiving the connecting rod. A bolt is inserted through a bore passing transversely to the slot to engage a pin connector holding a fixator pin. The pin connector has rod-engaging surface that wedges the connecting rod into the slot thus increasing the clamp's rigidity by preventing rotation of the clamp around the rod and rotation of the pin connector in the clamp body.
The External Fixation System is intended to provide treatment for long bone and pelvic fractures that
require external fixation. Specifically, the components can be used for:
Stabilization of soft tissues and fractures
Polytrauma/multiple orthopaedic trauma
Vertically stable pelvic fractures, or as a treatment adjunct for vertically unstable pelvic fractures
Arthrodeses and osteotomies with soft tissue problems; failures of total joints
Neutralization of fractures stabilized with limited internal fixation
Non-unions/septic non-unions
Intraoperative reductions/stabilization tool to assist with indirect reduction
Unilateral rectilinear bone segment transport or leg lengthening
Transverse Clamp
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