Patent ID: 8029481
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for inserting and advancing a catheter, the apparatus comprising: a long catheter; an outer coating around the catheter, wherein the coating is separable from the catheter; and a Y-shaped housing with an entrance leading to a coating exit and a catheter exit, the housing configured to only separate the coating and the catheter such that as the coating is drawn through the housing, the coating will exit through the coating exit, and the catheter will exit through the catheter exit, thereby separating the coating from the catheter, wherein an interior of the Y-shaped housing is enclosed and includes means for separating the coating from the catheter, and wherein each of the entrance, coating exit and catheter exit has a seal attached thereto, the seals acting between the housing and the coating and the catheter.