Connecting device for intra-atrial ECG-lead

• US 6,324,416 B1
• Filed: 09/23/1999
• Issued: 11/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: B Braun Melsungen AG (B. Braun Holding GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Seibert, Richard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schaetzle, Kennedy
• Assistant Examiner(s): DROESCH, KRISTEN L
• Application Number:
  US09/401,968
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 607/115, 439/909, 439/252, 439/322, 439/219, 439/682, 439/822, 439/225, 439/352, 439/858, 439/222, 600/394, 600/386, 600/509, 600/523, 128/897
• US Class Current: 600/386
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/227 Sensors with electrical connectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/273 Connection of cords, cables or leads to electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/274 using snap or button fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/28 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/303 Patient cord assembly, e.g. cable harness
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/308 for electrocardiography [ECG]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/909 Medical use or attached to human body

Abstract

The connecting device comprises a patient cable with which ECG clamps may be connected to adhesive ECG electrodes to perform an extracorporeal ECG lead. For an intra-atrial ECG lead, an adapter with an ECG clamp is provided, to which adapter an ECG clamp of the patient cable may be connected. The adapter comprises a second input to which a connecting cable may be connected. The associated connector of the connecting cable is designed such that it may selectively be connected directly with an ECG clamp without the adapter being provided.

Claims

1. A connecting device for an intra-atrial ECG lead comprising a connecting cable, said connecting cable including a single wire conductor and an insulation coverings the connecting cable having a first end provided with a first connector for connection to an electric lead of a vena cava catheter and having a second end provided with a second connector;

an adapter with a first input adapted to be connected to an ECG clamp, a second input adapted to be connected to the second connector of the connecting cable, an output adapted to be connected to a patient cable of a display;

the second connector having a conductive sleeves said conductive sleeve including a first portion electrically connected to the second end of the single wire conductor of the connecting cable, the conductive sleeve including a terminal end socket portion adapted to fit a plug portion of the second input to form a single electrically conductive connection path between the conductive sleeve and the single wire conductor, and said conductive sleeve further including a conductive shaft portion adjacent said terminal end socket portion having a larger outer diameter than said terminal end socket portion, and said conductive shaft portion being adapted to be clamped by an ECG clamp.

2. The connecting device as defined in claim 1 including a patient cable connected to at least one ECG clamp, and one of said at least one ECG clamp being connected to the larger diameter conductive shaft portion of the second connector.

3. The connecting device as defined in claim 1, wherein the first connector of the connecting cable is a clamp adapted to be clamped onto a catheter guide wire from the side.

4. The connecting device as defined in claim 1 wherein the first connector of the connecting cable has an exterior insulated contact sleeve.

5. The connecting device as defined in claim 1 wherein the larger diameter conductive shaft portion and the terminal end socket portion are arranged coaxially in mutual projection from the first portion of the conductive sleeve.

6. The connecting device as defined in claim 1 wherein the terminal end socket portion is adapted to be slipped clampingly over a plug portion of an adapter.

7. The connecting device as defined in claim 1 wherein the second connector includes a grip portion, and the larger diameter conductive shaft portion and the terminal end socket portion are arranged coaxially in mutual projection from the grip portion of the second connector.

8. The connecting device as defined in claim 7 wherein the grip portion substantially encloses the first portion of the conductive sleeve.