Patent ID: 9532785
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method of treating a vascular injury occurring during or after an intravascular procedure, the method comprising: advancing an access wire having an inflatable balloon integral to the wire through a previously placed access catheter in a contralateral femoral artery to position the inflatable balloon integral to the access wire in a vascular access sheath located in an ipsilateral femoral artery, without using any additional guidewires to advance the access wire; withdrawing the vascular access sheath at least partway out of the ipsilateral femoral artery to expose the vascular injury; inflating the balloon to occlude the ipsilateral femoral artery or an ipsilateral iliofemoral artery at or near the vascular injury; removing an inflation device from a proximal portion of the access wire, wherein a proximal end of the access wire is hubless, and wherein the balloon remains inflated after inflation device removal; advancing at least one treatment device over the hubless proximal end of the access wire; and treating the vascular injury using the at least one treatment device.