Profile: Aesculap Implant Systems, Inc. offers a complete line of implant systems and instrumentation for the spine & orthopedic markets. Our orthopedic products include OrthoPilot® navigation system, Columbus™ knee system and Excia hip system. Our Columbus™ knee is designed for use with computer assisted navigation. When combined with the power of OrthoPilot® surgical navigation,it helps surgeons to improve total knee arthroplasty (TKA) results through the use of computer-assisted implant planning and flexion & extension gap balancing techniques.
FDA Registration Number: 3005739625
• AC-Powered Medical Examination Device (FDA Code: KZF / 880.6320) An AC-powered medical examination light is an AC-powered device intended for medical purposes that is used to illuminate body surfaces and cavities during a medical examination. |
• 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 Surgical Instrument Motor (FDA Code: GEY / 878.4820) |
• Adult Tongue Depressor (FDA Code: FMA / 880.6230) A tongue depressor is a device intended to displace the tongue to facilitate examination of the surrounding organs and tissues. |
• Angiographic Injector and Syringe (FDA Code: DXT / 870.1650) An angiographic injector and syringe is a device that consists of a syringe and a high-pressure injector which are used to inject contrast material into the heart, great vessels, and coronary arteries to study the heart and vessels by x-ray photography. |
• 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) |
• 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. |
• Balloon Inflation Syringe (FDA Code: MAV / 870.1650) |
• Battery-Powered Medical Examination Light (FDA Code: KYT / 880.6350) A battery-powered medical examination light is a battery-powered device intended for medical purposes that is used to illuminate body surfaces and cavities during a medical examination. |
• Bender (FDA Code: HXW / 888.4540) |
• Bending/Contouring Instrument (FDA Code: HXP / 888.4540) |
• Bone Clamp (FDA Code: HXD / 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. |
• 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 Hooks (FDA Code: KIK / 878.4800) |
• Bone Mallets (FDA Code: HXL / 878.4800) |
• Bone Rasps (FDA Code: HTR / 878.4800) |
• Bone Taps (FDA Code: HWX / 888.4540) |
• Bone Trephine (FDA Code: HWK / 888.4540) |
• Broach (FDA Code: HTQ / 888.4540) |
• Calcium Compound Bone Void Filler (FDA Code: MQV / 888.3045) A resorbable calcium salt bone void filler device is a resorbable implant intended to fill bony voids or gaps of the extremities, spine, and pelvis that are caused by trauma or surgery and are not intrinsic to the stability of the bony structure. |
• 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. |
• 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). |
• Cerclage Applier (FDA Code: HXN / 888.4540) |
• Cervical Intervertebral Fusion Device With Bone Graft (FDA Code: ODP / 888.3080) |
• Chisel/Osteotome (FDA Code: KDG / 878.4820) |
• Clip Removal Instrument (FDA Code: HBQ / 882.4200) A clip removal instrument is a device used to remove surgical clips from the patient. |
• Compression Instrument (FDA Code: HWN / 888.4540) |
• Curettes (FDA Code: HTF / 878.4800) |
• Depth Gauge (FDA Code: HTJ / 888.4300) A depth gauge for clinical use is a measuring device intended for various medical purposes, such as to determine the proper length of screws for fastening the ends of a fractured bone. |
• Disposable Aspiration and Injection Needle (FDA Code: GAA / 878.4800) |
• Drill Bit (FDA Code: HTW / 888.4540) |
• Drill Brace (FDA Code: HXY / 888.4540) |
• Electrosurgical Cutting and Coagulation Device (FDA Code: GEI / 878.4400) An electrosurgical cutting and coagulation device and accessories is a device intended to remove tissue and control bleeding by use of high-frequency electrical current. |
• Endoscopic Photographic Accessories (FDA Code: FEM / 876.1500) An endoscope and accessories is a device used to provide access, illumination, and allow observation or manipulation of body cavities, hollow organs, and canals. The device consists of various rigid or flexible instruments that are inserted into body spaces and may include an optical system for conveying an image to the user's eye and their accessories may assist in gaining access or increase the versatility and augment the capabilities of the devices. Examples of devices that are within this generic type of device include cleaning accessories for endoscopes, photographic accessories for endoscopes, nonpowered anoscopes, binolcular attachments for endoscopes, pocket battery boxes, flexible or rigid choledochoscopes, colonoscopes, diagnostic cystoscopes, cystourethroscopes, enteroscopes, esophagogastroduodenoscopes, rigid esophagoscopes, fiberoptic illuminators for endoscopes, incandescent endoscope lamps, biliary pancreatoscopes, proctoscopes, resectoscopes, nephroscopes, sigmoidoscopes, ureteroscopes, urethroscopes, endomagnetic retrievers, cytology brushes for endoscopes, and lubricating jelly for transurethral surgical instruments. This section does not apply to endoscopes that have specialized uses in other medical specialty areas and that are covered by classification regulations in other parts of the device classification regulations. |
• ENT Trocar (FDA Code: KTE / 874.4420) |
• Femoral Neck Punch (FDA Code: HWP / 888.4540) |
• Fixation Cerclage (FDA Code: JDQ / 888.3010) A bone fixation cerclage is a device intended to be implanted that is made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and that consists of a metallic ribbon or flat sheet or a wire. The device is wrapped around the shaft of a long bone, anchored to the bone with wire or screws, and used in the fixation of fractures. |
• Flexible Depth Gauge (FDA Code: HTJ / 888.4300) |
• Floor Standing Surgical Light (FDA Code: FSS / 878.4580) A surgical lamp (including a fixture) is a device intended to be used to provide visible illumination of the surgical field or the patient. |
• Forceps (FDA Code: HTD / 878.4800) |
• Fork (FDA Code: HXE / 888.4540) |
• General & Plastic Saw Surgical Blade (FDA Code: GFA / 878.4820) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Forceps (FDA Code: GEN / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Laparoscope (FDA Code: GCJ / 876.1500) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Cannula (FDA Code: GEA / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Clamp (FDA Code: GDJ / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Dissector (FDA Code: GDI / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Elevator (FDA Code: GEG / 878.4800) |
• General & Plastic Surgery Surgical Gouge (FDA Code: GDH / 878.4800) |