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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2015
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ron A. Drake, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Stanten C. Spear, Arden Hills, MN (US);
Beth C. Bullemer, Dayton, OH (US);
Les Stener, Blaine, MN (US);
Gary R. Fiedler, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Kendra Yasger, Big Lake, MN (US);
MEDTRONIC, INC., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A slitter for slitting a guide catheter has a handle and a blade assembly coupled to the handle. The blade assembly includes a shroud for receiving an elongated body of a medical device and a slitting blade having an exposed cutting edge to slit the guide catheter. The blade assembly includes a user-deflectable portion coupled to the shroud for causing the shroud to flex in response to deflection of the user-deflectable portion. The handle and the blade assembly may be assembled from piece parts in a manufacturing method.