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7618398 |
Catheter with removable balloon protector and stent delivery system with removable stent protector
A protective sleeve for a balloon dilatation catheter includes an elongate tubular member having a neck portion and a slit extending along the entire length of the tubular member from a proximal...
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7582070 |
Modular hemostatic valve
A modular hemostatic valve includes a splittable valve body. The splittable body defines a passageway. A sealing element positions in the passageway. The sealing element is configured to facilitate...
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7465291 |
Method of fluid delivery and catheters for use with same
A pain management system for the infusion of drug to a wound site includes a guide needle placed within an introducer tubing. The needle and tubing are pierced through the patient's skin, after...
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7462167 |
Catheter sheath slitter and method of use
A device and method for slitting a first elongated flexible catheter/sheath used with an elongated flexible component. The device includes a handle, an elongated groove and a cutter member. The...
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7329248 |
Catheter sheath pinch clamp
A catheter insertion sheath assembly ( 100 ) including a tubular sheath body ( 106 ) having a proximal end ( 102 ), a distal end ( 104 ), and a hollow passage ( 107 ) extending between the proximal...
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7229460 |
Catheter system with catheter and guidewire exchange
An intravascular catheter system, such as a dilatation catheter system for angioplasty procedures, which provides for the replacement of the catheter or the guidewire during the procedure. The...
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7144386 |
Catheter introducer having an expandable tip
A catheter includes a body having an outer surface defining a lumen and an expandable tip on a distal end thereof. The tip includes an opening axially extending therethrough. Upon insertion of a...
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7074231 |
Convertible mode vascular catheter system
An angioplasty catheter comprising a catheter shaft having a proximal portion and a distal end, an angioplasty balloon attached to the shaft at the distal end, a balloon inflation lumen extending...
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6966896 |
Introducer and hemostatic valve combination and method of using the same
An introducer and hemostatic valve for improved torsional guidance and kink resistance includes an entirely circumferentially reinforced introducer connected directly to a valve body formed of a...
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6939327 |
Peel-away sheath
A peel-away sheath for a catheter includes at least one weakened area in a non-longitudinal pattern, such as a helical pattern, along the length of the sheath. One embodiment of a catheter sheath...
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6852290 |
Multi-well apparatus
A multi-well assembly according to one embodiment comprises a multi-well block and a guide plate. The multi-well block defines a plurality of wells, with each well having a fluid-impermeable bottom...
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6837873 |
Method and an apparatus for forming a one-piece introducer
A method and an apparatus for forming a one-piece introducer in which at least one finger tab is formed at one end of a tube. The apparatus is formed from a molton polymer fed into the cavity of a...
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6824554 |
Convertible mode vascular catheter system
An angioplasty catheter comprising a catheter shaft having a proximal portion and a distal end, an angioplasty balloon attached to the shaft at the distal end, a balloon inflation lumen extending...
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6821287 |
Multi-mode vascular catheter system
An intravascular catheter, comprising a catheter shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, and a guidewire lumen extending through the shaft for receiving a steerable guidewire, wherein the...
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6712791 |
Splittable medical valve
A splittable medical valve is disclosed that is configured with a interfacing region that permits the valve to be placed over or inside of a tubular medical device, such as a splittable introducer...
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6712789 |
Introducer having a movable valve assembly with removable side port
An introducing apparatus includes an elongate tubular sheath having an external diameter, and the sheath has a bore including an internal diameter sized to receive a dilator therethrough. The...
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6692464 |
T-fitting for splittable sheath
A splittable sheath assembly including a sheath, a T-shaped fitting and an attachment mechanism. The sheath is adapted for use in the trans-cutaneous insertion of medical instrumentation through a...
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6641564 |
Safety introducer apparatus and method therefor
An introducing apparatus is provided which includes an elongate tubular sheath extending from a sheath proximal end to a sheath distal end. The sheath has a bore sized to receive a dilator...
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6626869 |
Guide wire introducer
The present invention comprises a device for advancing a guide wire into a blood vessel of a patient, which comprises a housing from a distal end of which extends a needle hub support having a...
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6613039 |
Safety guide for surgical placement of sharp instruments
A method and apparatus for the safe surgical placement of sharp instruments, such as trocars, is provided. The apparatus includes a safety guide that allows placement of a surgical trocar through a...
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6497681 |
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HOLDING AND MAINTAINING THE POSITION OF A MEDICAL DEVICE SUCH AS A CARDIAC PACING LEAD OR OTHER INTRAVASCULAR INSTRUMENT AND FOR FACILITATING REMOVAL OF A PEELABLE OR SPLITTABLE INTRODUCER SHEATH
A holding device and method of use with a peelable or otherwise splittable introducer sheath or catheter through which a cardiac pacing lead or other elongated flexible instrument extends into the...
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6251119 |
Direct stick tear-away introducer and methods of use
A direct stick tear-away introducer having an elongate intraluminal medical device, comprising a proximal and a distal end. A sheath is disposed about the medical device and extends from the distal...
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6224586 |
Positioning device
A catheter position guide (100) includes a first open channel (104) along the length of the position guide (100) designed to receive a catheter (202). An optional second channel (112) substantially...
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6196995 |
Reinforced edge exchange catheter
The invention relates to a catheter and guidewire exchange system in which the guidewire is contained within an indwelling portion of the catheter and with the guidewire and the catheter being...
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6149680 |
Stent loading tool
The present invention describes a device for delivering a stent to a bodily stricture. The delivery device advantageously includes a funnel shaped distal end configured to facilitate compressing...
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RE36857 |
Interlocking peel-away dilation catheter
A dilatation balloon catheter which is capable of being removed from a patient while leaving a guide wire in place has a longitudinal slit extending from its proximal end to a position near its...
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6110146 |
Protector for catheter balloon with guidewire backloading system
A balloon protector for the balloon of a dilatation catheter includes a distally extending flared section that defines a funnel receptive to a guidewire in order to facilitate backloading of the...
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6004293 |
Slotted regional anesthesia needle
A hypodermic needle device for administration of anesthesia to a patient's epidural space comprising a hypodermic needle having a barrel portion with opposed distal and proximal ends, a hub...
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5971957 |
Through-the-needle cannula and split needle placement apparatus and method of use
A novel enhanced needle splitting through-the-needle cannula placement apparatus includes a hinged housing, a scored splittable needle, a needle splitting means and sliding means for facile removal...
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5755693 |
Bloodless splittable introducer
An apparatus is provided for facilitating substantially bloodless insertion into and withdrawal from a patient's body of a longitudinal member having a proximal end portion and having a distal end...
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5743254 |
Orotracheal intubation guide
A blind intubation guide (10) including a tube-receiving space (46) with a tube-supporting spout (50) which effectively overhangs the epiglottis (90) so as to prevent an orotracheal tube (60) from...
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5741284 |
Dialysis combination and microdialysis probe and insertion device
A dialysis probe combination with a microdialysis probe (1) which can be inserted into tissue with the aid of an insertion device that includes a canula tube (9). In order to be able to remove the...
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5741233 |
Introducer device and methods of use thereof
The present invention comprises an improved medical introducer device that comprises a releasably locking dilator and circumscribing sheath as well as a tactile indicator to conveniently inform a...
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5735819 |
Tear-apart member for positioning a grommet carried thereon
A grommet positioning device 10 includes a positioning member 16, such as a sheath 28, carrying an elastic anchor, fastener or grommet 14 thereon. The grommet 14 is preferably composed of silicone...
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5709658 |
Rapid exchange type over-the-wire catheter
An intraluminal catheter, particularly a dilatation catheter for PTCA procedures, which is adapted for rapid exchange during an intraluminal procedure and which also allows for the exchange of the...
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5667514 |
Device and method for inserting a flexible element into soft tissue
An inserting device is provided for inserting an elongated thin flexible surgical member, such as an electrode, and the like, into body tissues. The device includes a pair of tubular portions with...
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5662605 |
Ear irrigation device and method
An ear irrigation device has a pump communicating with a water container for pumping water through a tube to a handpiece nozzle, for discharge into a person's ear. A control circuit operated by a...
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5658262 |
Catheter exchange method
A first catheter surrounds a guidewire, with the first catheter and guidewire each having a distal portion emplaced in the cardiovascular system of a patient. By this invention, the first catheter...
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5647857 |
Protective intraluminal sheath
A sheath holds a device against a balloon catheter for delivery in the lumen of a patient. The device can be a stent and graft combination. The stent is kept properly centered over the balloon...
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5613953 |
Sheath introducer with valve that splits
A transvenous lead introducer having an integral mechanical valve assembly which includes opposed comating valve members that are operated by opposed handles. The handles and the valves are joined...
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5489273 |
Introducer device and methods of use thereof
An improved percutaneous introducer device is provided that inhibits or prevents undesired shearing of the splittable sheath component of the device. The device includes an interference tab that...
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5480408 |
Endoscopic surgical kit for release of trigger finger
A surgical kit for performing trigger finger release surgery. A flexor tendon (T) passes through the palm (P) of a person's hand (H) to a finger (F) or thumb (B). Constriction of a protective...
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5462530 |
Intravascular catheter with bailout feature
An intravascular catheter, comprising a catheter shaft having a proximal end, a distal portion, and a distal end, having diagnostic or therapeutic means mounted on the distal portion, and a bailout...
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5425717 |
Epidural catheter system utilizing splittable needle
Disclosed is a system for administering epidural anesthesia utilizing an epidural catheter permanently secured at its proximal end to an adapter for putting the catheter in fluid communication with...
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5417669 |
Catheter exchange method and apparatus
A first catheter surrounds a guidewire, with the first catheter and guidewire each having a distal portion emplaced in the cardiovascular system of a patient. By this invention, the first catheter...
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5409469 |
Introducer system having kink resistant splittable sheath
This invention relates to a flexible kink resistant introducer system for introducing an elongated object into the venous system and especially for introducing a cardiac pacemaker lead. The...
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5389087 |
Fully exchangeable over-the-wire catheter with rip seam and gated side port
A fully exchangeable over-the-wire catheter is disclosed having a lumen adapted to slidingly receive a guidewire throughout the longitudinal extent of the tubular shaft. The tubular shaft may also...
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5380290 |
Body access device
A device for providing access to a living body. The device, in one embodiment, includes a slotted needle dimensioned and configured to receive, in fluid tight engagement, a catheter or a guidewire...
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5380283 |
Rapid exchange type dilatation catheter
A balloon dilatation catheter defines an inflation lumen communicating with its balloon, and a guidewire lumen extending along the catheter. An aperture portion is defined in the catheter shaft...
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5346505 |
Easily exchangeable catheter system
A balloon dilatation catheter having a proximal tubular member formed of high strength materials such as stainless steel with an inner lumen for directing inflation fluid through the tubular...
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