Saint Jude Medical will provide disposable medical supplies such as introducer sets that include ablation, diagnostic, intra-cardiac mapping catheters. An introducer set contains devices used to access blood vessels for the insertion of vascular catheters. The dilator is then removed, leaving only the sheath inserted into the blood vessel, providing a port through which a variety of catheters can be inserted.

This purchase is exempt from the usual selection processes of the Procurement Code because the procurement expenditure is for medical supplies or medical services necessary for the delivery of care and treatment at medical, dental, or veterinary teaching facilities utilized by SIU or U of I (30 ILCS 500 / 1-13(b-5)) This procurement is necessary to provide the highest level of care to the patients within UI Health and the lack of these supplies will limit our ability to provide such care that would drive patients elsewhere and result in a loss of revenue to the Hospital.