Paragraph Number

146

In certain embodiments, the surgical device 200c may be configured to assist a surgeon in performing these one or more steps of the spinal surgery procedure. In one embodiment, the surgeon may align another instrument such as an awl, bone probe, surgical drill bit, of the like, with the surgical device 200c. In this manner, the instrument used has the target insertion trajectory. In another embodiment, the surgical device 200c and/or electronic circuit 300/400 may be coupled to another instrument such that tilting that instrument will indicate a current orientation angle.

Added by DJM 1 2022