Apparatus for conveying a light source to an intravenous needle to kill blood pathogens
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Jun 21, 2005
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Nov 26, 2002
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Aug 28, 2001
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A tip of a needle is inserted into large vein of a patient. The needle is mounted in a butterfly device axially engaged to a generally cylindrical housing containing a Y-connector. A pharmaceutically acceptable solution is fed to the needle through the Y-connector to the housing. A quartz optic fiber is fed through the housing and needle to the tip of the needle in the patient's venous system. A source of UV and visible light directs both UV and visible light alternatively through the optic fiber to the patient's venous system to kill pathogens in the venous system.
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