The Biliary Drainage Catheter from COOK Medical comes with five large, oval sideports that increase drainage capability. The Biliary Drainage Catheter is designed for biliary, abscess and other multipurpose drainage applications. The Biliary Drainage Catheter comes with an Intro-Tip design, the design helps prevent the catheter from accordioning back over the stiffener or trocar-needle assembly when encountering resistance during insertion. The Biliary drainage catheter placements is done using either the Seldinger technique or a one-stick trocar introduction system. Features of the Biliary drainage catheter are decreased friction of the distal catheter surface, easy-to-use, low profile Mac-Loc® locking mechanism that provides firm fixation and AQ® hydrophilic coating for lubricity.