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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2023
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Glade H. Howell, Draper, UT (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A catheter placement system including a catheter, a needle for creating an insertion site, and a skin nicking device for enlarging the insertion site. A catheter placement device includes the skin nicking device slidably coupled with the needle, where the skin nicking device has one or more blades attached to a frame thereof. Distally displacing the skin nicking device along the needle causes the blade to nick the skin to enlarge the insertion site. A shield of the skin nicking device transitions between a safe configuration encapsulating the blade and a use configuration exposing the blade and the shield may be biased toward the safe configuration. A latch secures the shield in the safe configuration and an actuator releases the latch. A sheath of the skin nicking device includes the needle slidably disposed within a lumen thereof and a sharp tip of the blade embedded within a wall thereof.