IPC 6 English version A61M 21/00-A61M 39/28

A61M02100-A61M03928

SECTION A– HUMAN NECESSITIES

A 61

MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

A 61 M

DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A 61 D 7/00; means for inserting tampons A 61 F 13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A 61 J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A 61 J 1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A 61 B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A 61 L; magnetotherapy using magnetic elements placed within the body A 61 N 2/10); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR [4,5]

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Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis (beds for promoting sleep A 61 G 7/043)

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for inducing sleep or relaxation, e.g. by direct nerve stimulation, hypnosis, analgesia (for massage A 61 H; electrotherapy A 61 N, e.g. applying alternating or intermittent electric currents for producing anaesthesia A 61 N 1/34) [5]

Probes; Catheters; Dilators; Drainage appliances for wounds; Other apparatus for introducing media, e.g. medicines, into the body or applying them to the body (syringes A 61 M 3/00, A 61 M 5/00)

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Solid probes; Bougies

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Catheters; Hollow probes (dilators A 61 M 29/00; for measuring or testing A 61 B)

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Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters (A 61 M 25/10 takes precedence) [5]

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Holding devices, e.g. on the body [5]

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in the body, e.g. expansible [5]

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Body-piercing guide needles or the like (A 61 M 25/088 takes precedence) [5,6]

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Advancing means, e.g. self-propelled [5]

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Self-propulsion arrangements (A 61 M 25/085 takes precedence) [6]

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Fluid propulsion [6]

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using an additional catheter, e.g. to reach relatively inaccessible places [6]

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Guide wires [6]

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Remote control of the orientation of the distal end [6]

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Arrangements for enabling the detection of the internal position of the catheter, e.g. radiographically [6]

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using radio-opaque markers [6]

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Balloon catheters [5]

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Arrangements for detaching the balloon when in place [6]

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Arrangement or shape of fluid flow passages, e.g. of plural fluid passages (A 61 M 25/10 takes precedence) [6]

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Making or assembling not otherwise provided for [6]

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Connecting catheters or probes to hubs [6]

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Drainage appliances for wounds, or the like (implements for holding wounds open A 61 B 17/02)

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Dilators with or without means for introducing media, e.g. remedies (instruments for performing visual medical inspections of cavities or tubes of the body A 61 B 1/00) [2]

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Inflatable dilators (connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies B 60 C 29/00); Dilators made of swellable materials [3]

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Dilators made of swellable materials [5]

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Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body (A 61 M 25/00 takes precedence) [2,5]

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Devices for applying media, e.g. remedies, on the human body (devices for handling toilet or cosmetic substances A 45 D; absorbent pads, e.g. swabs, A 61 F 13/15) [2]

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Applying radioactive material to the body [5]

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combined with other radiant- or wave-energy source, e.g. electromagnetic, thermal, micro-wave [5]

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Arrangements specially adapted for placing, e.g. inhaling or injecting, radioactive material within the body [5]

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by fluid injection of radioactive or enhancing agent through a body-piercing conduit [5]

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Fluid reservoir shielding, e.g. syringe shielding [5]

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Utero-vaginal or pelvic application [5]

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Injectors, holders for seeds or implants, e.g. capsules [5]

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Radioactive dressings [5]

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Other apparatus for introducing media into the body (for reproduction or fertilisation A 61 B 17/425; apparatus for iontophoresis or cataphoresis A 61 N 1/30); Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin (salt baths A 61 H 33/04) [5]

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Tubes, tube connectors, tube couplings, valves, access sites or the like, specially adapted for medical use (for respiratory devices, e.g. tracheal tubes, A 61 M 16/00; artificial heart valves A 61 F 2/24) [5]

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Access sites [5]

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having pierceable self-sealing members [5]

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Haemostasis valves, i.e. gaskets sealing around a needle, catheter or the like, closing on removal thereof [6]

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Tubes; Storage means specially adapted therefor [6]

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Tube connectors or tube couplings [6]

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for joining a flexible tube to a rigid attachment [6]

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for connecting tubes having sealed ends [6]

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having provision for disinfection or sterilisation [6]

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Methods or apparatus for making the connection under sterile conditions, i.e. sterile docking [6]

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Closure caps or plugs for connectors or open ends of tubes [6]

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Valves or arrangement of valves [6]

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Check- or non-return valves [6]

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Valves closing automatically on disconnecting the line and opening on reconnection thereof [6]

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Clamping means for squeezing flexible tubes, e.g. roller clamps [6]

A61M - A61M 19/00