Abstract: A needle hereafter referred to as a metal cannula is of thin-walled construction and designed with a solid noncutting pencil point possessing a tip with an elliptical side port located not more than 1 (one) cannula Outer Diameter (O.D.) length from the tip and via a hollow internal channel the axial length of the cannula is capable of guiding an inserted catheter through the cannula for projection laterally out of the cannula for subsequent indwelling placement of the introduced catheter upon removal of the cannula. The sideport is placed on the angled surface of the developing point so that it coincides with the angle of the pencil point. The elliptical sideport has a machined and polished rounded internal edge intersecting with the external surface.