Echo™ Hip System
Options and instruments designed for patients and surgeons

The Echo™ Hip System, based on Biomet’s proven Bi-Metric® and Integral® femoral component designs,^1-2 offers new design features, three stem options and customizable instrumentation to adequately address the needs of diverse fracture patients.

Echo™ Hip System Design Features

• Reduced neck geometry enhances potential range of motion
• Modified insertion hole allows for rotational control
• Modified inserter aides in controlling version upon impaction
• Polished proximal neck region

Three Stem Options
The Echo™ FX Stem is similar to the traditional Biomet® hip fracture stem. It is a dual purpose stem that can be cemented or press-fit. Key design features include:

• Forged cobalt chromium alloy
• Roughened Interlok® finish
• Six sizes: 7–17mm (2mm increments)
• Utilizes Exact™/Alliance® RPP broaches with new Echo™ trunnions

The Echo™ PF stem is designed for surgeons who prefer to perform hemi or total hip arthroplasty without bone cement. Key design features include:

• Collarless and forged titanium alloy
• Interlok® surface finish to promote a secure bone on-growth implant fixation
• Enhanced fixation fins proximally in anterior and posterior regions
• Tremendous size range to provide for canal-filling fit: 7–19mm (1 mm increments)

The Echo™ Bi-Metric® stem is a press-fit primary total hip. This stem utilizes many of the features of the proven Integral® and Bi-Metric® hip stems while integrating new design features to further enhance clinical performance. Key design features include:

• Full and reduced proximal profile to accommodate a wider range of femoral canals
• Standard and lateralized offset options to restore biomechanics
• Reduced neck geometry to allow for increased ROM and decreased risk of neck impingement
• Polished neck designed to reduce debris should impingement occur
• Polished bullet-shape distal tip to reduce distal stresses

*additional broach instrumentation required for full profile option with fracture instrumentation

¹ Meding, et al. Minimum ten-year follow-up of a straight-stemmed, plasma-sprayed, titanium-alloy, uncemented femoral component in primary total hip arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 86:92–97, 2004.
² Marshall, A.D. et al. Cementless titanium tapered-wedge femoral stem—10 to 15-year follow-up. Journal of Arthroplasty. 19(5): 546–52, 2004.