Profile: DePuy, Inc., provides healthcare solutions in orthopaedics, spinal care, pain management, and central nervous system. Our orthopaedic devices and supplies include hip, knee, extremity, trauma, cement & operating room products. Some of our novel products are Pinnacle® hip solutions with Trueglide™ technology, Sigma® knee portfolio, Global® shoulder portfolio, and anatomic locked plating systems (A.L.P.S.) for trauma care. Our Pinnacle® hip solutions are designed to help provide a more fluid range of natural motion. It allows the body to create a thin film of lubrication between surfaces.
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• Absorbable Interference Screw |
• Absorbable Suture Anchors |
• AC-Powered Motor Orthopedic Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: HWE / 878.4820) Surgical instrument motors and accessories are AC-powered, battery-powered, or air-powered devices intended for use during surgical procedures to provide power to operate various accessories or attachments to cut hard tissue or bone and soft tissue. Accessories or attachments may include a bur, chisel (osteotome), dermabrasion brush, dermatome, drill bit, hammerhead, pin driver, and saw blade. |
• AC-Powered Portable Ward Use Suction Apparatus (FDA Code: JCX / 878.4780) A powered suction pump is a portable, AC-powered or compressed air-powered device intended to be used to remove infectious materials from wounds or fluids from a patient's airway or respiratory support system. The device may be used during surgery in the operating room or at the patient's bedside. The device may include a microbial filter. |
• AC-Powered Surgical Instrument Motor (FDA Code: GEY / 878.4820) |
• ACE Titanium Small Fragment System |
• Acetabular Cup System |
• Acetabular Mesh Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: JDJ / 878.3300) Surgical mesh is a metallic or polymeric screen intended to be implanted to reinforce soft tissue or bone where weakness exists. Examples of surgical mesh are metallic and polymeric mesh for hernia repair, and acetabular and cement restrictor mesh used during orthopedic surgery. |
• ACL Cross Pin System |
• Amputation Knife (FDA Code: GDN / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
• Antibiotic Bone Cement (FDA Code: MBB / 888.3027) Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement is a device intended to be implanted that is made from methylmethacrylate, polymethylmethacrylate, esters of methacrylic acid, or copolymers containing polymethylmethacrylate and polystyrene. The device is intended for use in arthroplastic procedures of the hip, knee, and other joints for the fixation of polymer or metallic prosthetic implants to living bone. |
• Arthroscopes (FDA Code: HRX / 888.1100) An arthroscope is an electrically powered endoscope intended to make visible the interior of a joint. The arthroscope and accessories also is intended to perform surgery within a joint. |
• Arthroscopic Accessories (FDA Code: NBH / 888.1100) |
• Arthroscopic Handheld Instrument |
• Arthroscopy Shoulder Instrument Set |
• Awl (FDA Code: HWJ / 888.4540) An orthopedic manual surgical instrument is a nonpowered hand-held device intended for medical purposes to manipulate tissue, or for use with other devices in orthopedic surgery. This generic type of device includes the cerclage applier, awl, bender, drill brace, broach, burr, corkscrew, countersink, pin crimper, wire cutter, prosthesis driver, extractor, file, fork, needle holder, impactor, bending or contouring instrument, compression instrument, passer, socket positioner, probe, femoral neck punch, socket pusher, reamer, rongeur, scissors, screwdriver, bone skid, staple driver, bone screw starter, surgical stripper, tamp, bone tap, trephine, wire twister, and wrench. |
• Battery-Powered Optical Vision Aid (FDA Code: HPE / 886.5915) An optical vision aid is a device that consists of a magnifying lens with an accompanying AC-powered or battery-powered light source intended for use by a patient who has impaired vision to increase the apparent size of object detail. |
• Bioreabsorbable Bone Cement |
• Bioresorbable Bone Substititute Material |
• Bone Cement (FDA Code: LOD / 888.3027) |
• Bone Cement Restrictor |
• Bone Fixation Nail (FDA Code: JDS / 888.3030) Single/multiple component metallic bone fixation appliances and accessories are devices intended to be implanted consisting of one or more metallic components and their metallic fasteners. The devices contain a plate, a nail/plate combination, or a blade/plate combination that are made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, stainless steel, and titanium, that are intended to be held in position with fasteners, such as screws and nails, or bolts, nuts, and washers. These devices are used for fixation of fractures of the proximal or distal end of long bones, such as intracapsular, intertrochanteric, intercervical, supracondylar, or condylar fractures of the femur; for fusion of a joint; or for surgical procedures that involve cutting a bone. The devices may be implanted or attached through the skin so that a pulling force (traction) may be applied to the skeletal system. |
• Bone Fixation Plate (FDA Code: HRS / 888.3030) |
• Bone Fixation Screw (FDA Code: HWC / 888.3040) A smooth or threaded metallic bone fixation fastener is a device intended to be implanted that consists of a stiff wire segment or rod made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum and stainless steel, and that may be smooth on the outside, fully or partially threaded, straight or U-shaped; and may be either blunt pointed, sharp pointed, or have a formed, slotted head on the end. It may be used for fixation of bone fractures, for bone reconstructions, as a guide pin for insertion of other implants, or it may be implanted through the skin so that a pulling force (traction) may be applied to the skeletal system. |
• Bone Fixation Staple (FDA Code: JDR / 888.3030) |
• Bone Mill (FDA Code: LYS / 888.4540) |
• Bone Plating Systems |
• Bone Preservation Stems |
• Bone Skid (FDA Code: HWO / 888.4540) |
• Bone Taps (FDA Code: HWX / 888.4540) |
• Bone Vise Systems |
• Cables (FDA Code: ISN / 890.3420) An external limb prosthetic component is a device intended for medical purposes that, when put together with other appropriate components, constitutes a total prosthesis. Examples of external limb prosthetic components include the following: Ankle, foot, hip, knee, and socket components; mechanical or powered hand, hook, wrist unit, elbow joint, and shoulder joint components; and cable and prosthesis suction valves. |
• Calicum-Phosphate Non-Porous Metal/Polymer Uncemented Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: MEH / 888.3353) A hip joint metal/ceramic/polymer semi-constrained cemented or nonporous uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. This device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across-the-joint. The two-part femoral component consists of a femoral stem made of alloys to be fixed in the intramedullary canal of the femur by impaction with or without use of bone cement. The proximal end of the femoral stem is tapered with a surface that ensures positive locking with the spherical ceramic (aluminium oxide, A1203) head of the femoral component. The acetabular component is made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene or ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene reinforced with nonporous metal alloys, and used with or without bone cement. |
• Cannulated Drill Bit |
• Cannulated Screw System |
• Captured Hip Screw |
• Cardiovascular Trocar (FDA Code: DRC / 870.1390) A trocar is a sharp-pointed instrument used with a cannula for piercing a vessel or chamber to facilitate insertion of the cannula. |
• Carotid Artery Clamp (FDA Code: HCE / 882.5175) A carotid artery clamp is a device that is surgically placed around a patient's carotid artery (the principal artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain) and has a removable adjusting mechanism that protrudes through the skin of the patient's neck. The clamp is used to occlude the patient's carotid artery to treat intracranial aneurysms (balloonlike sacs formed on blood vessels) or other intracranial vascular malformations that are difficult to attach directly by reducing the blood pressure and blood flow to the aneurysm or malformation. |
• Cartilage Repair Implants |
• Cast Bandage (FDA Code: ITG / 890.3025) A prosthetic and orthotic accessory is a device intended for medical purposes to support, protect, or aid in the use of a cast, orthosis (brace), or prosthesis. Examples of prosthetic and orthotic accessories include the following: A pelvic support band and belt, a cast shoe, a cast bandage, a limb cover, a prosthesis alignment device, a postsurgical pylon, a transverse rotator, and a temporary training splint. |
• Cement Dispenser (FDA Code: KIH / 888.4200) A cement dispenser is a nonpowered syringe-like device intended for use in placing bone cement (888.3027) into surgical sites. |
• Cement Mixing Equipment (FDA Code: JDZ / 888.4210) A cement mixer for clinical use is a device consisting of a container intended for use in mixing bone cement (888.3027). |
• Cement Monomer Vapor Evacuator (FDA Code: JDY / 888.4220) A cement monomer vapor evacuator is a device intended for use during surgery to contain or remove undesirable fumes, such as monomer vapor from bone cement (888.3027). |
• Cement Obturator (FDA Code: LZN / 878.3300) |
• Cement Restrictor Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: JDK / 878.3300) |
• Cement Spacer (FDA Code: LTO / 888.3320) A hip joint metal/metal semi-constrained, with a cemented acetabular component, prosthesis is a two-part device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across-the-joint. This generic type of device includes prostheses that consist of a femoral and an acetabular component, both made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum. This generic type of device is limited to those prostheses intended for use with bone cement (888.3027). |
• Cemented Hip System |
• Cemented Metal/Polymer Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: JDI / 888.3350) A hip joint metal/polymer semi-constrained cemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across-the-joint. This generic type of device includes prostheses that have a femoral component made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and an acetabular resurfacing component made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene and is limited to those prostheses intended for use with bone cement (888.3027). |
• Cemented/Uncemented Semi-constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: MRA) |
• Cementless Hip Systems |