Description
CardioMed’s Dual Floating catheter is designed using two separate catheters lightly bonded together on the patient side of the cuff. This light bond holds the separate catheter bodies together to maintain ease of insertion during a tunneling procedure but allows the bodies to be pulled apart just prior to insertion into a vein. After insertion, two free-floating catheter bodies offer a number of benefits over traditional single body catheters:
- Two separate, venous designed tips reduce mechanical occlusions compared with single-bodied catheters
- Two separate round lumens offer superior flow with low venous pressures
- Lower recirculation rate if lines need to be reversed
Other design benefits include:
- Wider cuff material improves anchoring and offers greater protection against tunnel infections
- Unique polyurethane material is highly kink-resistant and impervious to antiseptics containing alcohol
