Patent ID: 9095680
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. An assembly for inserting a catheter into a body lumen, the assembly comprising a guide catheter to be introduced into an aperture of the body lumen, an elongate fixing element having a proximal and a distal end, wherein with its distal end the fixing element is securable to the guide catheter, and wherein at the proximal end of the fixing element, a clamping device is provided, which clamping device comprises a clamping unit, for securing a guide wire in relation to the guide catheter, and which clamping unit comprises a passageway for the guide wire, wherein the assembly comprises the catheter, having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end comprises an engaging means for releasably engaging the clamping unit, and wherein by engagement of the engaging means of the catheter with the clamping unit the guide wire is movable through the guide catheter and wherein, upon disengagement of the engaging means of the catheter from the clamping unit, the guide wire is non-movably secured relative to the guide catheter, and wherein said clamping unit comprises at least two clamping jaws for fixing the guide wire, the clamping jaws are separable from one another by frictional engagement of the engaging means of the catheter.