What are medical guidewires?
A guidewire is a thin, flexible, medical wire inserted into the body to guide a larger instrument, such as a catheter, central venous line, or feeding tube. The process of catheterization was noted as early as the 18th century.
What is a guidewire in cardiology?
Guidewires are essential tools, to track through the vessel, allowing access and the ability to cross the lesion with interventional devices. When Gruentzig performed the first coronary angioplasty in 1977, he was using a blunt, closed-end, inner balloon catheter with a short guidewire attached to its tip.
What is a bentson guidewire?
The Olympus Bentson guidewire is a flexible, round wire wrapped over a stainless steel core designed to provide balanced performance. The medium stiffness of the proximal shaft helps ensure pushability and control while the long, floppy distal tip helps enable precise, less traumatic advancement.
How many types of cardiac catheterization are there?
There are two main types of cardiac catheterization: Right heart catheterization (venous or flow-directed catheter): The catheter is inserted through a vein in the groin region or at the elbow and then advanced to the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.
What is a quick cross catheter?
Quick-Cross support catheters were the first support catheters designed around the wire to receive FDA clearance.
What is a sidewalk guy?
These fittings are used with standard pipe near sidewalks and buildings where space is not available for standard guying.
What are down guys?
1. Down Guy- Consists. of a wire running from the attachment near the top of the pole to a rod and anchor installed in the ground.
Who performs a cardiac catheterization?
Cardiologists use a procedure called cardiac catheterization to see how well your heart is working. It can also be used to identify problems and administer a treatment for narrowed or blocked coronary arteries.
What is a support catheter?
The Rubicon Support Catheter is intended to facilitate placement and support of guidewires and other interventional devices within the peripheral vasculature and to allow for exchange of guidewires, and provide a conduit for the delivery of saline or contrast solutions.
Why are guidewires important in interventional cardiology?
Coronary Guidewires Guidewires are as critical as any tool in the interventional cardiology toolbox-without the right guidewire to access and deliver devices to a lesion, successful treatment through PCI is impossible. The right guidewire can lead to improved outcomes, reduced procedure times, and increased procedural throughput.
What kind of device is a choice™ guidewire?
Vascular Surgery. CHOICE™ Extra Support Guidewire Provides the extra support and smooth device tracking required for device delivery. Interventional Cardiology. CHOICE™ Floppy Guidewire Combines a hydrophilic-coated polymer sleeve with a soft tip and flexible body – excellent for frontline and tortuous anatomy cases.
Why is guidewire quality so important?
With clinical applications like vascular access, cardiology, peripheral vasculature, gastroenterology, endourology and neurovascular applications, every procedure comes down to a single moment of truth: reaching the treatment zone. That is why so much rides on the quality of your guidewire…because if you can’t reach it, you can’t treat it.
Why choose Heraeus as your guidewire provider?
As a guidewire leader and innovator, Heraeus provides customers with fully integrated, turnkey solutions that enhance clinical performance and improve supply chain management. We supply guidewires, components and wire based medical devices across the complete lifecycle, including design, product development, Regulatory Affairs and manufacturing.