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Catheter guide apparatus for perpendicular insertion into a cranium orifice

  • US 4,931,056 A
  • Filed: 10/24/1988
  • Issued: 06/05/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A hand-held apparatus for accurately and reproducibly inserting a catheter through an orifice in a human cranium and guiding said catheter into a ventricle of a human brain, said apparatus comprising:

  • open tubular means;

    support means for said open tubular means, said support means being adapted to rest unsecured on said human cranium in surrounding spaced relation to an orifice therein, anda rigid catheter guide member inserted within said open tubular means and having a diameter larger than that of said catheter and smaller than that of said open tubular means, said catheter guide member adapted and configured for positioning and aligning said open tubular means and said support means directly over said cranium orifice;

    said support means, said open tubular means and said catheter guide member being related to each other and to said cranium so as to guide said catheter through said orifice and in a direction perpendicular to an imaginary plane defined by a tangent to the cranium at said orifice,said catheter guide member adapted to be in guiding engagement with said catheter and adapted to contact and extend at least partially into said cranium orifice.

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