Abstract: An apparatus for pressing out bone cement from a cartridge, to a use of the apparatus, and to a system for pressing out bone cement. An apparatus for pressing out bone cement from a cartridge comprises a threaded rod with an external thread, a handle for rotating the threaded rod, and an adapter unit for mechanically connecting to a cartridge for bone cement. The adapter unit has a passage with an internal thread for the threaded rod. An outer surface of a thread turn of the external thread is not more than 370 mm2.

Abstract: One aspect relates to an augmentation device comprising an annular cone surrounding a channel extending through the cone from a proximal cone end to a distal cone end of the cone. One aspect further relates to an augmentation system comprising such an augmentation device and an applicator, as well as an implantation method of an augmentation device using such an augmentation system.

Abstract: A device having a bone screw with a body, an outer thread and a proximal screw head. A fluid-permeable conduit is disposed in the body, begins at the head and opens out into a fluid outlet opening that is spaced apart from the head in the distal direction. An axial groove extends from the fluid outlet opening to the screw head. The base of the groove is deeper than the base of the outer thread. A cap detachably connects with the screw head, in which a fluid-permeable conduit is disposed, which opens out into the conduit of the bone screw. A hose for feeding fluid is connected or connectable in a fluid-permeable manner with the inlet opening on the cap so that a pharmaceutical fluid is pressable out of the fluid outlet opening through the hose, through the conduit of the cap and through the conduit of the bone screw.

Abstract: A device for positioning an injector near a joint and to a device for injecting a substance near a joint. A device for positioning an injector near a joint comprises two clamping jaws for holding in place a skin fold in a clamping position and an interface for mechanically connecting an injector. This makes possible a safe, reproducible and simple injection of substances in the immediate vicinity of a joint.

Abstract: One aspect relates to a device for locally applying a medical fluid, including a flexibly deformable tube including a tube wall. The tube includes a plurality of openings in the tube wall, the plurality of openings connecting an inner line of the tube to the surroundings of the tube, and the tube being closed at a distal tube. A proximal tube end of the tube is liquid-permeably connectable to a container for the medical fluid such that the medical fluid from the container can be pushed through the proximal tube end of the tube into the inner line of the tube and can be pushed out through the plurality of openings into the surroundings of the tube.

Abstract: A device for local administration of pharmaceutical fluids. The device has at least one capillary with at least one opening in the region of its distal end, a hollow intermediate piece which is connected with the at least one capillary so as to allow the passage of liquid, a guide for directing the intermediate piece which comprises a distal support for resting on the patient, and a fixing element for fixing the intermediate piece to the guide. The fixing element allows fixing of the intermediate piece in various positions relative to the guide. Such fixation prevents displacement of the intermediate piece in relation to the guide. Also disclosed is a method for preparing such a device.

Abstract: A device for dispensing a liquid from a glass ampule, comprising a housing, a holder arranged in the housing for receiving a glass ampule, a projection which is arranged in the housing and designed and configured to break open a glass ampule which can be received in the holder, an outlet for dispensing a liquid from the housing, and a plunger movably arranged in the housing, wherein the plunger is designed and configured to break open a glass ampule, which can be received in the holder, by the pressure of the glass ampule against the projection, and to pump the liquid from the glass ampule out of the outlet of the housing.

Abstract: Device for dispensing a liquid starting component of a bone cement paste from a glass ampoule. comprising a housing, a holder arranged in the housing for receiving a glass ampoule, and an outlet for dispensing the liquid starting component from the housing.

Abstract: A device for producing a bone cement, comprising an ampule breaker having a first housing, wherein the first housing comprises a first interior, a holder arranged in the first housing for receiving a glass ampule, a breaking element arranged in the first housing, which is designed and configured to break open a glass ampule which can be received in the holder, a collection region arranged in the first housing, which is designed and configured to receive a liquid from a broken-open glass ampule, a cartridge which is configured to receive a powder component of a bone cement, wherein the cartridge comprises a second housing having a second interior, and a fluid-conducting channel for dispensing a liquid from the collection region into the second interior, wherein the fluid-conducting channel is arranged and configured to retain the liquid in the collection region and to dispense the liquid to the second interior.

Abstract: One aspect relates to a device for locally applying a medical fluid, including a flexibly deformable tube including a tube wall. The tube includes a plurality of openings in the tube wall, the plurality of openings connecting an inner line of the tube to the surroundings of the tube, and the tube being closed at a distal tube. A proximal tube end of the tube is liquid-permeably connectable to a container for the medical fluid such that the medical fluid from the container can be pushed through the proximal tube end of the tube into the inner line of the tube and can be pushed out through the plurality of openings into the surroundings of the tube. The device includes an outer sleeve for closing a subset of the plurality of openings, the outer sleeve being axially movably arranged around the tube, and being shorter than the tube such that the distal openings that are not part of the closed subset of the plurality of openings are exposed.

Abstract: A device for producing an active ingredient solution, preferably an antiseptic wound-irrigating solution, having: a connection element designed and configured for liquid-tight connection to a container; a mandrel designed and configured for piercing a septum of a container; a reservoir containing an active ingredient in solid form, and connectable via an outlet of the reservoir in a fluid-conducting manner to the connection element; a liquid-permeable filter arranged at the outlet of the reservoir and configured to retain the active ingredient in solid form in the reservoir; a fluidic element configured to receive a liquid from a container into the reservoir, configured to dispense a liquid from the reservoir; wherein the device is configured to receive a liquid from a container into the reservoir, to dissolve the active ingredient in the liquid, and to dispense the dissolved active ingredient to a patient via the connection element.

Abstract: A device for dispensing bone cement by means of a machine, comprising a connection unit configured for connection to a surgical robot, a press-out unit configured for dispensing bone cement, a receiving unit configured for receiving a container containing bone cement, and an interface configured for connection to a control unit, in order to dispense a predefined amount of bone cement from the container by means of the press-out unit.

Abstract: An electrically driven motor vehicle has current collectors for pickup from a dual-pole power transmission line device. A device determines the voltages between a vehicle chassis and the current collectors. The device is a bridge circuit with two equal voltage divider resistors connected in series between the two current collectors and a bridge shunt resistor electrically connected to a center tap between the voltage divider resistors and to the vehicle chassis, or the device has two voltage measurement devices for determining a voltage between the first current collector and the vehicle chassis and a voltage between the second current collector and the vehicle chassis. There is also described a method for operating the motor vehicle and a system with the motor vehicle and a dual-pole power transmission line device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implant for local active ingredient release having an upper wall (1), which is closed and disk-shaped and consists of a material which is pierceable with an injection cannula using a force of less than 100 N, is self-sealing and is elastically deformable, a lower wall (2) which is arranged opposite the upper wall (1), is disk-shaped, is elastically deformable and has at least one liquid-permeable feed-through (3) through the lower wall (2), a hollow space (4) which is arranged between the upper wall (1) and the lower wall (2), and an anti-piercing means (6), which is disk-shaped, between the upper wall (1) and the lower wall (2), wherein the anti-piercing means (6) consists of a material which is not pierceable with an injection cannula (100) using a force of less than 100 N. The invention also relates a method for filling such an implant with a liquid.

Abstract: An implant for the sustained subcutaneous release of an active ingredient, which implant comprises a housing, which is delimited on a first side by a septum, and an outlet on a second side for the release of an active ingredient, and a reservoir, which is arranged in a cavity of the housing and is designed to receive a liquid containing an active ingredient.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a knee spacer component by curing bone cement paste. The invention also relates to methods for producing knee spacer components using such a device.

Abstract: An insert element for a vehicle wheel comprises several supporting bodies for supporting the insert element on supporting surfaces of the vehicle wheel. The supporting bodies have a supporting shoulder, which can be brought to bear against a supporting surface of the vehicle wheel, and a fastening extension with an axial hollow channel and with at least one outwardly protruding locking projection, arranged at an axial distance from the supporting shoulder, for engaging behind an installation opening reaching through the supporting surface of the vehicle wheel. The supporting bodies are designed as elastomer components which are elastically deformable in the radial and axial direction and sit with their hollow channel on a supporting core. The supporting cores bear a radially protruding retaining flange and are held on the rear side on the insert element. Each supporting body is held by the retaining flange in a form-fitting manner against being pulled off from the supporting core.

Abstract: A device for the surgical cleaning of infected implants, the device containing a brush head containing a bristle region having a plurality of bristles; a supply element configured to transport a cleaning liquid to the brush head; a discharge element configured to remove liquid from the brush head; and a connecting element configured to releasably connect the supply element and the discharge element to an external lavage device.

Abstract: One aspect relates to a device for mixing two liquids including a tube having an open end, a main line connected to the tube in a liquid-permeable manner, a rubber-elastic body delimiting a line wall of the main line, at least one secondary line in the rubber-elastic body, wherein the at least one secondary line extends from at least one secondary opening up to the main line and opens via at least one mouth into the main line, a main connection for introducing a first liquid into the main line, at least one feed line for introducing a second liquid into the at least one secondary line, which is connected to the at least one secondary opening in a liquid-permeable manner. The at least one secondary line is closed in the rubber-elastic body without the action of a force and is hydraulically openable by a pressure being exerted on a second liquid fed to the at least one secondary line by an elastic deformation of the at least one rubber-elastic body.

Abstract: A device for mixing bone cement comprises a first hollow body which encloses a first cavity for receiving a powder and has a first opening, and a second hollow body which encloses a second cavity for receiving an ampoule and has a second opening. The first hollow body and the second hollow body are connectable to one another in such a way that the first opening and the second opening are fluidically connected to one another. The first hollow body is elastic so that a content of the first hollow body can be mixed from the outside by kneading.