DEVICE FOR PREPARATION OF INTRAVENOUS FILTER FOR IMPLANTATION

• Main Authors: VLADIMIR ILIICH PROKUBOVSKY, ARY ALEXEEVICH SMIRNOV, VIKTOR SERGEEVICH SAVELIEV, EVGENY GEORGIEVICH YABLOKOV, SERGEI VIKTOROVICH SAVELIEV, STEPAN MIKHAILOVICH KOLODY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.04.1991
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DIAGNOSIS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

The device comprises a guide element and an applicator which has a capsule adapted to accommodate an intravenous filter, a number of springs being located at the capsule base, said springs being so fashioned that their free ends are curved to define a pyriform body of revolution which encompasses the capsule. The applicator comprises also a conducting catheter, a sleeve installed on the catheter and so traversable as to get in contact with the springs, a stylet and a collet grip.