Abstract: A device for fastening an electrode in the pacemaker bed before the entry of the electrode into a vein is provided, and includes a sheath having two parts and, with a hose extending through their interior. The two parts and of the sheath are profiled at the contacting edges of a common separating point so that they are fixed in reference to one another in the rotational direction until a user pulls them apart beyond the axial extension of the profiling. In this pulled-apart position the parts of the sheath can be rotated in reference to one another under torsion of the hose and subsequently, due to the restoring force of the hose, will be again guided together axially, which reduces the interior cross-section of the hose and allows a form-fitting grasping the electrode extending therethrough.

Abstract: A device (1) for fastening an electrode (2) in the pacemaker bed before the entry (6) of the electrode (2) into a vein (4) is provided, and includes a sheath (9) having two parts (7) and (8), with a hose (10) extending through their interior. The two parts (7) and (8) of the sheath (9) are profiled at the contacting edges of a common separating point (11) so that they are fixed in reference to one another in the rotational direction until a user pulls them apart beyond the axial extension of the profiling. In this pulled-apart position the parts of the sheath can be rotated in reference to one another under torsion of the hose and subsequently, due to the restoring force of the hose (10), be again guided together axially, which reduces the interior cross-section of the hose and allows a form-fitting grasping the electrode (2) extending therethrough.

Abstract: A cardiac stimulator lead connector is provided. The connector includes a pin member that has a distal end and a first insulating sleeve coupled to the pin member. An annular member is coupled to the first insulating sleeve. A conductor sleeve is coupled to the annular member and a second insulating sleeve is coupled to the conductor sleeve. One or more conductor wires running from distal electrodes in a lead may be welded to the connector. The connector eliminates crimping as a mechanism to secure lead conductors to lead connectors.

Abstract: A surgical electrode wherein the terminal portion of a lead wire which extends from the thorax of a patient is connectable with a cardiac pacing or monitoring instrument by a rod-shaped electrically conductive male connector in cooperation with an insulating sleeve-like female connector which is slidable longitudinally of the male connector. The latter has a transverse slot or hole remote from one end of the male connector, and the terminal portion of the wire extends from the one end of the male connector, through the slot or hole, and back to the one end of the male connector. The female connector normally surrounds two legs of the terminal portion as well as the hole or that part of the slot which is nearer to the one end of the male connector but leaves the male connector exposed between that part of the wire which extends through the hole or slot and the other end of the male connector so that the exposed portion of the male connector can be inserted into the socket of a pacing or monitoring instrument.