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US 2019/0314602 A1Published application
Antimicrobial actuator for opening the side port of a ported catheter
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorWeston F. Harding
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Abstract
The present invention related to a catheter device having a side port in which is contained an actuator, the actuator being configured to compress a tubing of the catheter device inwardly when a separated device is inserted into the side port, thereby opening a flowpath from the side port to the inner lumen of the catheter device. In some instances, the side port actuator further comprises an antimicrobial agent or is formed from an antimicrobial material whereby the actuator prevents antimicrobial growth or colonization within fluid that remains in the side port following use thereof.
Claims8
A ported catheter comprising:
- a catheter adapter having an inner lumen;
- a catheter extending distally from the catheter adapter;
- a side port forming an opening through a sidewall of the catheter adapter into the inner lumen;
- a tubing positioned within the inner lumen to cover the opening formed by the side port;
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- an actuator contained within the side port, the actuator being configured to compress the tubing inwardly when a device is inserted into the side port, the inward compression of the tubing opening a flowpath from the side port into the inner lumen, characterized in that the actuator comprises one or more antimicrobial agent(s), wherein the actuator comprises a lumen through which fluid may flow and a bottom portion having a diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the opening within the side port and a top portion having a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the opening within the side port and wherein the antimicrobial agent(s) elute into a fluid when the fluid contacts the actuator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.