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US 9,402,972 B2Granted
Catheter add-on and methods of producing and using same
AssigneeAndrophin Medical Ltd.
InventorsYaniv Glozman, Roey Gibor, Yonatan Assouline
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising: (a) a main body adapted to engage and retain a catheter therein at a fixed point relative to the catheter length; and (b) a cutting mechanism adapted to sever said catheter in response to a pre-defined threshold force applied along the length of the catheter.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- (a) a main body adapted to engage and retain a catheter therein at a fixed point relative to the catheter length;
- and
- (b) a cutting mechanism adapted to sever said catheter in response to a predefined threshold force applied along the length of the catheter;
- wherein the apparatus lacks a spring.
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A method comprising:
- (a) fashioning a main body including engagement and retention components sized to accommodate a portion of a catheter length;
- and
- (b) installing a cutting mechanism within said main body, to produce a device with no spring.
A method of treatment comprising:
- (a) inserting an in-dwelling urinary catheter into a bladder of a patient via the urethra;
- (b) inflating a balloon at the end of the catheter in the bladder;
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- (c) installing an apparatus comprising a cutting mechanism responsive to a pre-defined threshold force applied along the length of the catheter at a point on the catheter adjacent to the urethra.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.