PERCUTANEOUSLY DEPLOYED ABDOMINAL DRAIN

摘要

Devices adapted to facilitate draining fluid from the abdominal/peritoneal cavity of a medical patient. The invention may be embodied in one or more element of an access port 100, insertion assist device (210), and/or abdominal catheter (119, 142, 150, 170, 180, 194, 280, 280', 340, 350). A preferred abdominal catheter provides a drain field that can be inserted into the abdominal compartment, through an access opening having a small cross-section, in a stowed configuration and subsequently expanded to provide a large drain area through which to extract fluid from the compartment.