Rapid exchange catheter

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1994-04-22

1995-12-05

Rosenbaum, C. Fred

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

604 96, 604 53, A61M 2900

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054724252

ABSTRACT:
An over-the-wire rapid-exchange catheter having a guidewire channel and a rupturable membrane along one side of the guidewire channel. The catheter is exchanged by withdrawing the catheter from a guiding catheter, while stripping the operative catheter from the guidewire by tearing the guidewire through the rupturable membrane. The guidewire channel provides a sealing surface for a releasable seal on the guiding catheter, avoiding the gripping of the guidewire. A replacement catheter can be threaded onto the guidewire, and the end of the guidewire can puncture the rupturable membrane at a selected location to establish a guidewire channel at the distal end of the catheter.

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