Patent ID: 6632228
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A system for selectively deploying one or more sequentially positioned medical appliances from a portable medical device, having a passage through it, to a target site comprising:a flexible sheath having a channel, an inside surface, an outside surface, a distal end, and a proximal end; an external sealing plug positioned along the outside surface of the sheath between the distal end and the proximal end, the external sealing plug having a passage sized to slidably couple the sheath to the external sealing plug; and a plurality of strings positioned within the channel of the flexible sheath, wherein each string of the plurality of strings has a first end and a second end, the first end of at least one string coupled to a pull, the pull having a unique marking to distinguish it, the second end of the at least one string in physical communication with a catch.