Vascular infusion device
CA 2323567 A1 · Owner: Scimed Life Systems, Inc. · Inventors: Brenner, Laurence D.; Ballow, Owen; Zukowsky, Gerald
Overview
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A vascular access device for infusion of fluids into a patient. The device includes an introducer sheath having one or more side holes and the sheath can be used with a catheter in place through the sheath with a dilator in place , through the sheath or with the sheath vacant. The device provides for a significant volume of infused fluid to exit the side holes. The side holes allow for the infusion of fluids, such as medications to be directed to , specific patient locations rather than to have the entire volume of infused fluid exit the distal end of the sheath tube.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 23, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 23, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 23, 2021.
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