Venous Access Port Assembly with Push Surfaces

• US 20090221976A1
• Filed: 02/25/2009
• Published: 09/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medical Components, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Medical Components, Inc.
• Inventors: Linden, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 9,561,358 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/288.10
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/0232 having means for facilitating the insertion into the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/0208 Subcutaneous access sites for injecting or removing fluids transcutaneous access sites A61M39/0247; implantable infusion devices A61M5/14276

Abstract

A venous access port assembly (10) having a housing (12), a septum (14), a discharge stem (16) at a distal end thereof for connection to a catheter (50), and an interior chamber (18). The housing includes a pair of recesses (28) along both sides thereof between the distal end and a proximal port end (24), where the recesses facilitate pushing the assembly by the practitioner into a subcutaneous pocket (104) of a patient (100) for implantation into the pocket.

Claims

1. A venous access port assembly, comprising:

a housing including a septum affixed thereto and a discharge stem at a distal end of the housing for being connected to a catheter proximal end, and a chamber in fluid communication with a passageway through the discharge stem, the chamber being needle-accessible through the septum, and the housing includes a shovel-like protuberance at its proximal end,

wherein the housing includes a pair of recesses along both sides thereof between a proximal end of the housing and its distal end, adapted to receive thereinto portions of a thumb and forefinger of a practitioner'"'"'s hand for pushing the assembly proximally into a subcutaneous pocket for subcutaneous implantation into a patient.

2. The port assembly of claim 1, wherein the recesses define push surfaces at proximal portions thereof.

3. The port assembly of claim 1, wherein each of the pair of recesses is large and shallow.

4. The port assembly of claim 3, wherein each of the pair of recesses is generally oriented vertically.

5. The port assembly of claim 1, wherein each of the pair of recesses is generally oriented vertically.