Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Overview Of The Synthes Screw

By Rena Hudson


DePuy Synthes is a company owned by the well-trusted Johnson & Johnson, who is a highly recognized brand in the consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and medical devices industries. The company operates under such important values and principles as integrity and innovativeness, along with education and quality. Both surgeons and their patients are assisted by the goal of the company, which is helping doctors bring patients better outcomes. One of the ways they do this is through their surgical hardware, which is a highly effective tool for fracture fixations of several types. Continue reading to learn more about surgical screws available through this company.

DePuy Synthes has been providing the medical industry with advanced biomaterials, implants, and surgical power tools for more than 50 years, having started in 1960. With locations in the US and Switzerland, the company is the largest producer of bone fracture mending implants. The Synthes screw has long been preferred by doctors and patients in many countries because of its solid construction and ease of installation. Many doctors and patients have enjoyed very positive outcomes thanks to the this medical hardware.

This fracture fixation hardware is specially designed to make installation simple while minimizing show and causing less irritation to soft tissue. These headless compression screws come self-tapping and self-drilling. They make it easier for surgeons to control the compression, allowing for greater accuracy.

There are several benefits to using this brand of fixation hardware. The desired lag screw effect is easily had, thanks to their special design. The cannulated design is featured in all sizes but the 1.5 mm version, allowing for accurate placement. Use of the 1.5 mm size includes avulsions, osteotomies of small bones and bone fragments, intra-articular and extra-articular fracture fixation, arthrodesis of small joints, and nonunions. These uses also apply to the 2.4 and 3.0 mm sizes. The larger sizes of 4.5 and 6.5 mm can be used for foot joint fusions, reconstruction, and a few other procedures.

The self-drilling and self-tapping features of the come from flute of the hardware. Countersinking of the head is also achieved thanks to these flutes. The featured StarDrive recess, which provides greater torque transmission. Materials of the screw include 316L stainless steel and titanium alloy.

To make finding the right screws easier and for viewing the various of sixes available from DuPuy Synthes, the company publishes a reference chart that can prove to be very helpful. Within it the hardware can be identified by their drill bit size, drive type, tap, thread length, thread diameter, and locking type.

Those who need to remove either intact of damaged screws of various types can use the Universal Removal Set offered by the company. This set holds all the blades and required instruments it takes to remove mini and small sizes while the blade of the included screwdriver can be used for removing most of the available screws. A great deal of information, including warnings, contraindications, indications, and precautions, is listed on a helpful insert which has been placed in the kit.

The Synthes screw has helped the factures of thousands of patients be successfully set and allowed to heal. This is a screw surgeons find helpful because it grants them a high amount of control over the compression and is easy to use. Patients who receive the Synthes screw are glad at the fact that there is less show through their skin.




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