Device for implanting catheters

US7011648B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Tobias Breskot · Berlin, DE
• Max Schaldach · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 13, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 14, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2025/0675
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for implanting catheters has a tube with a wall and a wire. The tube is intended to be introduced into a body so that at least one catheter can be inserted for implantation through the tube. The wall of the tube has an inside surface and an outside surface. The wire is preferably fixed at its first end in the region of the proximal end of the tube to the inside surface or the outside surface of the wall and the wire is guided in the proximity of that surface along the longitudinal direction of the tube from the proximal end of the tube to the distal end thereof and is then returned in the proximity of the respective other surface of the wall along the longitudinal direction from the distal end of the tube to the proximal end thereof. The wire is used to cut the tube open after insertion of the catheter.