Patent ID: 8142446

Claim:
A toolkit for setting in place an intracorporal lead, comprising: a guide-catheter, having a sheath including a distal end, a proximal end, and an internal lumen opened at the distal and proximal ends, and a generatrix, said sheath being able to be opened along the generatrix so as to allow removal of the guide-catheter after use thereof; a hemostatic valve able to selectively fill the internal lumen of the guide-catheter at the input end, said valve comprising an element mobile longitudinally slidable along the guide-catheter between an opened position where the proximal end of the guide-catheter freely emerges out of the valve to provide an access to the internal lumen of the guide-catheter, and a closed position where said proximal end of the guide-catheter is filled in a tight manner, said valve being frangible into at least two parts dissociable from each other along a median axial plane, wherein: the sheath comprises a rigidified reinforced sheath, adapted for being cut along said generatrix by means of a cutting tool comprising a blade; the guide-catheter presents a constant diameter in its region receiving the valve; the frangible valve is mounted at the proximal end of the guide-catheter, and is fitted between said at least two parts of the frangible valve; and the dissociation of said at least two parts of the frangible valve provide free access to the guide-catheter.