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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2006
Fred P. Lampropoulos, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Nicholas Gerald Accisano, Iii, Howell, NJ (US);
Louise Marini, Middletown, NJ (US);
Fred P. Lampropoulos, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Nicholas Gerald Accisano, III, Howell, NJ (US);
Louise Marini, Middletown, NJ (US);
Merit Medical Systems, Inc., South Jordan, UT (US);
Abstract
A drainage catheter, including a catheter tube body that can have a pig-tail loop in a distal end, a rigid member configured to be placed inside of the catheter, a pig-tail straightening sleeve configured to move axially along the tube body, the sleeve having a lip formed on an end of the sleeve, the lip being configured to be positioned towards the distal end of the tube body, thereby straightening the catheter tube body and facilitating entry of the rigid member into the catheter tube body when the pig-tail straightening sleeve is positioned to straighten the catheter tube body.