Patent ID: 8469944

Claim:
An elongated introducer access assembly comprising: a distal end and a proximal end, a first tubular channel having a longitudinal axis and running from a first proximal end opening to a distal end opening of said assembly and being adapted to receive a first tubular medical device, a second tubular channel having a second proximal end opening and running from the proximal end of the assembly, said second tubular channel being arranged in an angled direction in relation to the longitudinal axis of the first tubular channel such that a plane is defined by the second tubular channel, the first tubular channel, and an intersection of the second tubular channel and the first tubular channel, and a cutting unit adapted to provide an opening cut through a part of the first tubular medical device arranged in the first tubular channel, such that a second medical device may be inserted into said second tubular channel and into the first tubular medical device via said opening cut, wherein the cutting unit is configured to move in a direction transverse to the plane to provide the opening cut, wherein the second tubular channel enters the first tubular channel at a junction proximally to the distal end of the assembly, and an intersectional angle is formed between the first tubular channel and the second tubular channel, and wherein the assembly comprises a first half and a second half adapted to separate from the first half, the first and second halves being adapted to receive, when assembled together, the first tubular medical device in the first tubular channel.