US 11,957,355 B2
Vascular access devices, systems, and methods
L. Van Thomas Crisco, Jacksonville, FL (US)
Assigned to Access Flow Systems, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Access Flow Systems, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/648,994.
Application 17/648,994 is a division of application No. 16/098,733, granted, now 11,253,263, previously published as PCT/US2017/030811, filed on May 3, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/331,229, filed on May 3, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151634 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/11 (2006.01); A61B 17/22 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61F 2/01 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01)
CPC A61B 17/12136 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0057 (2013.01); A61B 17/11 (2013.01); A61B 17/12036 (2013.01); A61B 17/1204 (2013.01); A61B 17/12109 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00336 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0065 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00663 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00778 (2013.01); A61B 2017/22044 (2013.01); A61B 2017/22069 (2013.01); A61B 17/3478 (2013.01); A61B 2090/064 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3966 (2016.02); A61F 2/013 (2013.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
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1. A catheter system comprising:
a guidewire; and
a puncturable balloon catheter device comprising:
a catheter which comprises an elongate flexible shaft having a proximal end portion and an opposed distal end portion with a primary lumen therethrough;
a balloon disposed about the distal end portion of the catheter;
an inflation lumen which is in fluid communication with the balloon and which extends toward the proximal end portion of the shaft of the catheter; and
a wire lumen having (i) a first opening in the interior of the balloon configured to receive or deliver the guidewire which punctures the balloon, and (ii) an opposed second opening at the proximal end portion of the catheter.