PERCUTANEOUS BALLOON DILATIONAL TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE

摘要

A device for forming an ostomy in a tracheal wall, useful in conjunction with a wire guide percutaneously positionable across the tracheal wall. The device includes a dilator tube and a balloon catheter carried by the dilator tube. The catheter includes an inflatable balloon extending from the distal end of the dilator tube. The dilator tube and the balloon catheter are advanceable along the wire guide and the balloon is inflatable so as to atraumatically dilate a portion of the tracheal wall to form an ostomy in the tracheal wall.