Apparatus for dispensing a wire guide
AssigneeCook Critical Care Incorporated
InventorsBruce J. DeMars, Gregory A. Frankland, Alan A. Petrucci
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Abstract
An apparatus for dispensing a wire guide into a body vessel of a patient includes a first apparatus half and a second apparatus half. Each of the apparatus halves has an interior surface, wherein each of the halves is structured and aligned for joinder with the other half along the respective interior surfaces. Upon joinder of the apparatus halves, the resulting apparatus defines a generally spiral-shaped interior wire guide pathway, a wire guide opening generally tangential to the interior pathway, a guideway for receiving an end of the wire guide from the opening, a first port communicating with the pathway, and a second port communicating with the first port.
Claims20
An apparatus for dispensing a wire guide into a body vessel of a patient, comprising:
- a first apparatus half and a second apparatus half, each of said first and second apparatus halves having an interior surface, each of said halves structured and aligned for joinder with the other of said halves along said respective interior surfaces such that a generally spiral-shaped interior wire guide pathway, a wire guide opening generally tangential to said interior pathway, a guideway for receiving an end of said wire guide from said opening, a first port communicating with said pathway, and a second port communicating with said first port, are defined thereby.
A wire guide dispensing apparatus, comprising:
- a dispenser body comprising a first half and a second half, said first and second halves structured and arranged such that upon joinder thereof an interior wire guide pathway is defined thereby, said dispenser body including a wire guide opening configured for passage of said wire guide from said pathway, said dispenser body further including a first port communicating with said pathway for receiving a flushing fluid for said wire guide, and a second port communicating with said first port for drainage of said flushing fluid from said pathway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.