US 11,998,727 B2
Subcutaneous insertion systems; devices and related methods
Steven Albert Cote, Stillwater, MN (US); Mark Henry Faust, Lino Lakes, MN (US); and David Andrae Justmann, Somerset, WI (US)
Assigned to Smiths Medical ASD, Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed by Smiths Medical ASD, Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/549,373.
Application 17/549,373 is a continuation of application No. 16/097,449, granted, now 11,229,753, previously published as PCT/US2017/029353, filed on Apr. 25, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/329,352, filed on Apr. 29, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0096757 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61M 5/142 (2006.01); A61M 5/158 (2006.01); A61M 5/172 (2006.01); A61M 5/46 (2006.01); A61M 25/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3287 (2013.01) [A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/6848 (2013.01); A61B 5/6861 (2013.01); A61M 5/14248 (2013.01); A61M 5/158 (2013.01); A61M 25/06 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); A61B 5/14542 (2013.01); A61B 5/6865 (2013.01); A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2562/162 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1585 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1587 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1726 (2013.01); A61M 5/46 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3576 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. An insertion site, comprising:
a patient-side surface;
a central hub having a side aperture formed therein;
a subcutaneous element coupled to the site at an acute angle with respect to the patient-side surface; and
a septum having a longitudinal axis that is coaxial with a longitudinal septum axis of the central hub extending substantially orthogonally from the patient side surface,
wherein the side aperture of the central hub configured to enable an insertion needle to pass through the septum at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal septum axis, to enter the subcutaneous element at the oblique angle.