Patent ID: 8821406
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. An introducer sheath/temperature probe assembly comprising: a tubular introducer sheath having a proximal end, an introducer sheath hub on the proximal end, a distal end and a lumen which extends longitudinally therethrough, said introducer sheath being insertable into a blood vessel; an elongate temperature probe having a distal end and a proximal end, said temperature measuring probe having a temperature probe hub on the proximal end and being removably insertable, distal end first, into the lumen of the introducer sheath after the introducer sheath has been inserted into a blood vessel, said temperature measuring probe being useable, when inserted into the lumen of the introducer sheath, to sense the temperature of blood flowing through the blood vessel into which the introducer sheath is inserted; and