Patent ID: 9636499
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,A61N

Claim:
1. A medical apparatus, comprising: a guidewire; a fixator catheter comprising a tubular body with a distal portion and a proximal portion, the fixator catheter further comprising a body opening and a distal opening at a distal end of the fixator catheter, wherein the body opening is defined through a portion of the tubular body of the fixator catheter to a lumen extending through the tubular body of the fixator catheter including the distal and proximal portions thereof and which lumen terminates at the distal opening, and further wherein at least a portion of the body opening is defined through the tubular body of the fixator catheter at the distal portion thereof; and a fixator secured to the distal portion of the fixator catheter; and wherein: