Patent ID: 7027873
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A catheter for a nerve block in anesthesia comprising: a flexible plastic tube that forms a lumen and includes a tube proximal end and a tube distal end; a wire in said catheter for electrical stimulation, whose wire proximal end is electrically contactable at the tube proximal end and which leads to a contact tip protruding distally from said catheter, where the contact tip is a metal part that includes a plug and a cap, wherein said plug is insertable coaxially into the distal end of said catheter, that said cap is disposed in front of said tube distal end and overlaps its distal edge surface, that the cross section of said wire is smaller than the free internal cross section of said catheter, and said wire is connected in an electrically conducting fashion at its wire distal end with said plug, wherein the wall of said catheter has at least one outlet opening at its distal end area behind said plug and the center axis of the at least one liquid outlet opening makes an acute angle of less than 90° with respect to the center axis of said catheter in the distal direction, whereby fluid injected into the proximal end of the tube is directed generally in the distal direction.