摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an easily and surely insertable catheter which can prevent the tip of a stylet from damaging a vascular wall and can prevent the catheter in a bending direction of the stylet and the catheter on an operator side from shaking during insertion. <P>SOLUTION: The stylet 5 comprises a wire-shaped stylet body 6 which consists of a torque transmittable material capable of orienting its distal end within the blood vessel and has a crooked portion 6a comprising a synthetic resin at least for the surface at its distal end, a control section 7 which is fixed with the base end 6b of the stylet body 6, and vaned guiding means 8 which is disposed engageably with the control section 7 and can fix, during engagement, the crooking direction of the distal end of the stylet body to the direction facing at this time. The crooking direction of the crooked portion can be directed to a desired direction and this position can be fixed by the guiding means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |