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US 12,440,652 · App. 17/761,588 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Intravenous catheter-placement device and method thereof

Inventor: Chad K. Nielson (Midvale, UT)
Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
A61M25/0606A61M25/0113A61M25/0631A61M25/0693A61M2005/3228A61M5/3232A61M5/3234A61M5/3257A61M5/326A61M25/0612A61M25/0618
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Patent No.
US 12,440,652
App. No.
17/761,588
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An IV catheter-placement device and method thereof. The IV catheter-placement device can include a cartridge and a case fixedly disposed over the cartridge. The cartridge can include a barrel having a release button, a spring-loaded needle extending from the barrel, and an IV catheter including a catheter hub slidably disposed over the needle. The case can include a deployment button configured to slide the IV catheter over the needle. The deployment button can also be configured to press the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button. A spring compressed between a needle hub and a distal-end portion of the barrel can be released when the deployment button slides into the release button. An entirety of the needle is subsequently launched into a needle cavity of the barrel.

Claims (34)

1. An intravenous (“IV”) catheter-placement device, comprising:

a cartridge including a barrel having a release button on a side of the barrel, a spring-loaded needle extending from a distal-end portion of the barrel, and an IV catheter including a catheter hub slidably disposed over the spring-loaded needle; and

a case fixedly disposed over the cartridge including a longitudinal slot in a side of the case, a deployment button configured to slide in a distal direction along the longitudinal slot and, in turn, slide the IV catheter over the spring-loaded needle and press the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button such that a spring compressed between a needle hub and the distal-end portion of the barrel is released and an entirety of the spring-loaded needle is launched into a needle cavity of the barrel.

2. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 1 , wherein the deployment button includes a longitudinal extension disposed between the case and the cartridge having a distal end abutting a portion of the catheter hub configured to slide the IV catheter over the spring-loaded needle.

3. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 1 , wherein the deployment button includes a radial extension configured to press the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button.

4. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 1 , wherein the case is opaque, thereby hiding from a patient about half a length of the spring-loaded needle proximal of a distal end of the case.

5. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 1 , wherein the IV catheter-placement device is configured for one-handed operation with respect to advancing the IV catheter and retracting the spring-loaded needle.

6. An intravenous (“IV”) catheter-placement device, comprising:

a cartridge including:

a barrel including a needle cavity, a spring compressed against a distal-end portion of the needle cavity in at least an initial state of the IV catheter-placement device, and a release button on a side of the barrel configured to release the spring when the spring is compressed;

a needle extending from the barrel, the needle including a needle hub captively disposed in the needle cavity compressing the spring against the distal-end portion of the needle cavity in at least the initial state of the IV catheter-placement device; and

an IV catheter including a catheter hub slidably disposed over the needle; and

a case fixedly disposed over the cartridge including a longitudinal slot in a side of the case, a deployment button configured to slide in a distal direction along the longitudinal slot and, in turn, slide the IV catheter over the needle and press the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button such that the spring is released and an entirety of the needle is launched into the needle cavity for a deployed state of the IV catheter-placement device.

7. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the deployment button includes a longitudinal extension disposed between the case and the cartridge having a distal end abutting a portion of the catheter hub in at least the initial state of the IV catheter-placement device configured to slide the IV catheter over the needle.

8. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 7 , wherein a length of the longitudinal extension is commensurate with at least about half a distance the IV catheter should be advanced into a vein for placement of the IV catheter into the vein.

9. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the deployment button includes a radial extension configured to press the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button.

10. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the needle hub includes a step between a medial portion of the needle hub and a proximal-end portion of the needle hub, the spring coiled around the medial portion of the needle hub and compressed between the step and the distal-end portion of the needle cavity in at least the initial state of the IV catheter-placement device.

11. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the needle hub includes a catch in a distal-end portion of the needle hub, the release button including a radial extension disposed in the catch in at least the initial state of the IV catheter-placement device.

12. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the needle hub includes a needle-hub cavity configured for blood flashback upon establishing venous access with the needle.

13. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the case is opaque, thereby hiding from a patient a length of the needle proximal of a distal end of the case in at least the initial state of the IV catheter-placement device.

14. The IV catheter-placement device of claim 6 , wherein the IV catheter-placement device is configured for one-handed operation with respect to advancing the IV catheter and retracting the needle.

15. A method of using an intravenous (“IV”) catheter-placement device, comprising:

obtaining the IV catheter-placement device, the IV catheter-placement device including:

a cartridge including a barrel having a release button on a side of the barrel, a spring-loaded needle extending from a distal-end portion of the barrel, and an IV catheter including a catheter hub slidably disposed over the spring-loaded needle; and

a case fixedly disposed over the cartridge including a longitudinal slot in a side of the case, a deployment button configured to slide in a distal direction along the longitudinal slot;

piercing a vein of a patient with the spring-loaded needle;

sliding the IV catheter over the needle and into the vein by way of the deployment button; and

pressing the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button, thereby launching an entirety of the needle into a needle cavity of the barrel by releasing a spring compressed against a distal-end portion of the needle cavity by a needle hub of the spring-loaded needle.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein sliding the IV catheter over the spring-loaded needle includes sliding the IV catheter by way of a longitudinal extension of the deployment button disposed between the case and the cartridge having a distal end abutting a portion of the catheter hub.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein sliding the IV catheter over the spring-loaded needle advances the IV catheter at least about half a distance the IV catheter should be advanced into the vein for placement of the IV catheter into the vein.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein pressing the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button includes pressing the release button by way of a radial extension of the deployment button.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein pressing the release button when the deployment button slides into the release button includes withdrawing a radial extension of the release button from a catch in a distal-end portion of the needle hub.

20. The method of claim 15 , further comprising hiding from the patient a length of the spring-loaded needle proximal of a distal end of the case, wherein the case is opaque.

21. The method of claim 15 , further comprising operating the IV catheter-placement device with one hand with respect to at least advancing the IV catheter and retracting the spring-loaded needle.

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