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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1979
Bruce L Hanson, Wayne, NJ (US);
Sidney Wolvek, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Datascope Corp., Oakland, NJ (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for the percutaneous insertion of intra-aortic balloons into the human body wherein a sheath is provided which can be inserted into an artery through a puncture, and an intra-aortic balloon of a size sufficiently small and having sufficient flexibility is used which can be moved through the sheath into the artery. The apparatus and method includes, puncturing the skin into the artery until a needle means having a bore, introducing a guide wire into the artery through the needle means, advancing a dilator-sheath set over the wire to enlarge the puncture and to place an end of the sheath within the artery, withdrawing the dilator and guide wire and then inserting the balloon through the sheath.