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Device for controlling extra-vascular haemorrhage

  • US 20030004462A1
  • Filed: 06/24/2002
  • Published: 01/02/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1999
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An inflatable device for inserting, in a substantially deflated state, into a blood or other biological fluid carrying vessel of a human or animal, the device having an inflated state in which it defines an elongate open-ended tube means having an inlet end and an outlet end, said tube having a first outer wall formed and arranged to provide, in said inflated state, a close fit around the whole of the intima of the vessel in use of the device, and a second inner wall closely spaced apart from said first outer wall in said inflated state, said second inner wall defining a substantially uninterrupted passage means through the device through which blood or other biological fluid may flow, in use of the device, said first outer wall and said second inner wall defining an inflatable volume, which inflatable volume is in fluid communication with an inflation channel disposed inwardly of the inner wall, whereby in use of the device in an inflated state, blood or other biological fluid may pass through the device without leaking past or around the outside of the device, and without the flow thereof therethrough being substantially interrupted.

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