Patent ID: 7011648

Claim:
A device for implanting a catheter in a body of a patient, the device comprising: a tube with an open proximal end, an open distal end and a wall, which has an inside surface and an outside surface and which encloses a cavity that is open both at the proximal end and at the distal end, and a longitudinal slot, adapted to guide the wire, in the outside surface of the wall, wherein the tube is adapted to be inserted into the body so that the catheter can be introduced for the implantation procedure through the tube, wherein the tube has a length such that the proximal end of the tube remains outside the patient's body upon insertion of a catheter, and wherein a wire extends in the proximity of one of the surfaces of the wall along a longitudinal direction of the tube from the proximal end to the distal end thereof and is guided back in the proximity of the respective other surface along the longitudinal direction from the distal end to the proximal end.