Abstract: The invention refers to a needle (10, 30), such as an epidural needle, whose needle body (14, 28) is structured in its outer surface, at least in sections, so that a resistance which inhibits advance is produced when penetrating through a tissue (22).
Abstract: An epidural cannula for local anesthesia having a cannula point with an adjacent lateral opening parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cannula. The cannula has a cross-sectional enlargement spaced from the point and having an area directed toward the point that forms an angle greater than 30.degree. relative to the longitudinal axis of the cannula.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 5, 1993
Date of Patent:
November 15, 1994
Assignee:
te me na Logistics
Inventors:
Wilhelm Waskonig, Jose J. Rodiera Olive