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Remotely-activated vertebroplasty injection device

  • US 10,485,597 B2
  • Filed: 11/17/2017
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A remotely-activated injection device, comprising:

  • an injection pump having an injection chamber, an exit opening, and a piston operable to apply a force against a bone cement so as to push the bone cement from the injection chamber through the exit opening;

    a remote actuator operatively coupled to the injection pump, the actuator operable to drive the piston at a sufficient distance away from the injection pump so as to allow a clinician to operate the injection pump safely outside of a range of an imaging field directed in the vicinity of the injection pump;

    a pressure relief device on the remotely-activated injection device for minimizing contact between a pressurized bone cement and other tissue.

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