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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Samuel W Harrison, Shreveport, LA (US);
Catrell McCulloch, Shreveport, LA (US);
Lawrence E Mosley, Shreveport, LA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604167 ; 604168 ; 604171 ;
Abstract
A closed system canulating device for arterial and venous catherization, which includes a reservoir attached to the hub of a needle assembly and provided with an internal wire guide and valve to facilitate canulating an artery or vein with the needle and containing blood flashback in the reservoir during the canulation procedure. After canulation of the artery or vein is accomplished, a catheter guide wire is inserted through the valve and the wire guide located in the reservoir, into the needle hub and needle and finally into the artery or vein, to facilitate completion of the catherization procedure.