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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Shekhar D. Nimkar, Swampscott, MA (US);
Stephen E. Albrecht, South Walpole, MA (US);
Paramjith Anand, Lowell, MA (US);
Eric Tobin, North Andover, MA (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A method of performing a medical procedure, includes providing a catheter including a first lumen in fluid communication with a first distal opening and a second lumen in fluid communication with a second distal opening, advancing a distal end of a first intra-catheter stiffener element through the first lumen and out of the first distal opening, coupling the first intra-catheter stiffener element to the catheter, advancing a distal end of a second intra-catheter stiffener element through the second lumen and out of the second distal opening, coupling the second intra-catheter stiffener element to the catheter, and advancing the catheter into a patient.