Travenol Laboratories, Inc.

Thomas P Robinson

Don M Killman

The specification discloses a self venting plug for a venous entry unit which is a porous plastic body adapted to be removably seated in a hollow flashback chamber. The plug comprises an open pored plastic having a pore size on the order of 10-15 microns, and provides a flow path for venting air from the flashback chamber while inhibiting flow of blood from the chamber. The plug may be used, for example, with over-the-needle and through-the-needle catheter units employing piercing needles, and may be used to anchor a stylet for stiffening a catheter to be forwarded into the body.

Self venting plug for venous entry unit

An obturator plug is provided with a thin circumferential deformable sealing skirt integrally formed on and protruding from the plug, engaging the inwardly facing wall of a female catheter fitting to form an improved obturator-catheter assembly having a catheter secured to its proximal end in a female catheter fitting and receiving an obturator having a shaft secured to a plug, the obturator plug including locking means engaging a predetermined portion of the female catheter fitting to lock the plug to the fitting after a specific degree of insertion of the plug into the fitting.

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Dallas, TX, United States of America

Thomas P Robinson