Device for introducing a catheter with a security non-piercing cage provided with a flexible blade
AssigneeVygon
InventorsJean-Luc Carrez, Valéry Dalle, Pierrick Guyomarc'h, Jean-Max Huet
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AssigneeVygon
InventorsJean-Luc Carrez, Valéry Dalle, Pierrick Guyomarc'h, Jean-Max Huet
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A device for introducing a catheter into a body site through the skin by means of an security non-piercing cage includes a steel spring flexible blade which is disposed in the cross section of the chamber of the nonpiercing cage near the proximal input thereof perpendicularly to a needle and is penetrable by the needle. The blade and the needle are adapted to interact in such a way that the blade is in a resting position and freely transversable by the needle when the needle is pushed in a distal direction, and the blade stops the needle and is flexed thereby when the needle is pulled in a proximal direction beyond a determined axial position in such a way that the flexed blade tilts the needle and exposes the inclined needle to a restoring force which pushes the needle off in the distal direction until the puncture end is stopped against the chamber wall. The invention can be used for intravenous catheters.
An arrangement for the insertion into the body, through the skin, of a catheter with a proximal base, where this arrangement includes a needle which has a puncture end and a cage, which extends the base in the proximal direction, where this cage forms a chamber through which the needle slides from a proximal entrance to an opposite distal exit and is equipped with a sprung flexible steel blade to hold the puncture end of the needle in the chamber when the needle is withdrawn from the cannula, wherein this blade comprises a transverse branch positioned across the chamber close to the proximal entrance of the chamber perpendicular to the needle and traversed by the needle, where the blade and the needle include resources that combine so that the transverse branch is at rest and traversed freely by the needle when the needle is pushed in the distal direction, and so that the transverse branch stops the needle and is bent by the needle when the needle is drawn in the proximal direction beyond a given axial position, so that the bent transverse branch inclines the needle and applies a return force to the needle which tends to force the needle back in the distal direction until the puncture end comes up against a wall of the chamber.
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