Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters

Full Title

Catheters; Hollow probes > Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters

Classification Context

Section:

HUMAN NECESSITIES

Class:

MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

Subclass:

DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR

Child Classifications

Navigate with arrow keys, Enter to open

• A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• A61M 25/06 Body-piercing guide needles or the like
• A61M 25/08 Advancing means, e.g. self-propelled
• A61M 25/088 using an additional catheter, e.g. to reach relatively inaccessible places
• A61M 25/09 Guide wires
• A61M 25/092 Remote control of the orientation of the distal end
• A61M 25/095 Arrangements for enabling the detection of the internal position of the catheter, e.g. radiographically