Patent ID: 8317821

Claim:
An apparatus to provide hemostasis at a blood vessel puncture site, comprising: a communication tube having a lumen, a top and bottom; a hemostatic material positioned around said communication tube bottom, said hemostatic material having a first end and a second end; a hemostatic material cover positioned around the hemostatic material, wherein said hemostatic material cover forms a hollow distal tip cavity at the hemostatic material first end, further wherein said hemostatic material cover comprises a bleed back entrance port in fluid communication with the communication tube; a releasable mechanism at said communication tube top, the releasable mechanism including: a first connector; a second connector; said first connector having a first end and a second end, a first connector lumen extending from the first connector first end to the first connector second end, said first connector lumen being in fluid communication with said communication tube lumen; a first notch positioned near the first connector second end to releasably mate with the second connector, said first notch partially interrupting said first connector lumen; said second connector having a top, a bottom, and a second connector lumen extending from the second connector top to the second connector bottom; a second notch located near the second connector bottom to releasably mate with the first connector, said second notch partially interrupting said second connector lumen; wherein the first notch is partially bounded by a first mating wall inclined at an acute angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the first connector lumen and the second notch is partially bounded by a second mating wall inclined at an acute angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second connector lumen, such that the first and second mating walls are complementary to each other; wherein the mating of the first connector second end with the second connector second notch and the second connector bottom with the first connector first notch defines a series of lumens in continuous fluid communication extending from the hemostatic material cover bleed back entrance port to the second connector top.