# K962700: Ventricular Catheter Blood Flow Monitoring Probe Kit and Ventraflo Blood Flow Monitoring Probe Kit

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Vasamedics, LLC
- Decided: Apr 9, 1997 after 271 days
- Product code: DPT (Probe, Blood-Flow, Extravascular)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 870.2120
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 2 generations back to K875179 (1988). 3 ancestors in all.
1 later device descends from it; 1 cites it directly.
0 of 5 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K951832: Laserflo Blood Perfusion Single Use Probes Models Sup-440, Supr-434 Sup-433, Vasamedics, LLC (1996) Summary page 1.
- (no number) PS Medical “Becker Ventricular Catheter”: named in the summary without a submission number
- (no number) PS Medical “Ventriculostomy Kit”: named in the summary without a submission number

## Most influential descendants
- K013376: Qflow 500 Perfusion Monitoring System (2002), 0 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
The probes kits are intended for extravascular monitoring of microcirculation blood flow in buried tissues, specifically, in monitoring cerebral blood flow in patients at risk of cerebral ischemia.

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K962700
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology