Patent ID: 7491163

Claim:
A method of treating a patient comprising: providing a multilumen catheter, said catheter comprising: a catheter body having a proximal end, a first distal end, and a second distal end, said first distal end extending distally farther from the proximal end than the second distal end; a first lumen extending between said first distal end and said proximal end; a second lumen extending between said second distal end and said proximal end, said second lumen in fluid communication with said first lumen at the proximal end; and inserting said multilumen catheter into the patient minimally invasively such that the first distal end is at a first vascular location and the second distal end is at a second vascular location remote from the first vascular location; causing blood to flow in said second lumen to said proximal end and to flow distally from the proximal end in said first lumen without exiting said catheter body; and redirecting substantially all of the blood flow exiting the first lumen in a direction generally opposite of the direction of flow in the first lumen; wherein the second vascular location is within a femoral artery or an iliac artery.