What is an Amplatz wire used for?

What is an Amplatz wire used for?

Amplatz wire guides are used to gain ureteral access, to establish a tract, and to assist in the placement, replacement and exchange of medical devices during urological procedures.

What is amplatz wire?

Boston Scientific’s Amplatz Guidewire is a stainless steel wire with a flat-wire coil and PTFE coating.

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.

Is guidewire an implant?

Vascular devices cover a broad range of the medical-device industry from catheters and guidewires to balloon angioplasty and stents. While guide-wires and catheters are generally single-use devices, stents are obviously permanent implants. Guidewire for catheter applications.

What is Terumo guidewire?

GLIDEWIRE® Guidewire features a proprietary design for smooth, rapid movement through tortuous vessels and difficult lesions, including*: TERUMO Glide Technology™ hydrophilic coating that provides unmatched lubricity and superior lubricity retention1-3. Core-to-tip design providing a 1:1 torque ratio.

What is a whisper wire?

PTCA Wire Whisper is HI-TORQUE WHISPER guide wire combines the great distal access of a polymer-covered wire with an innovative technological feature for control and performance. The HI-TORQUE WHISPER guide wire maneuvers easily, even in complex anatomy, with a soft tip designed to promote safety.

What is Terumo wire?

₹1,100 – ₹9,000 + GST. Radifocus® Guide wire M Standard type are Nitinol hydrophilic guide wires covered with polyurethane and hydrophilic coating for an absolute maneuverability and absence of friction.

What are guide wires and catheters?

Tiny guide wires are designed to navigate vessels to reach a lesion or vessel segment. Once the tip of the device arrives at its destination, it acts as a guide that larger catheters can rapidly follow for easier delivery to the treatment site.

What is PTFE guidewire?

The Olympus PTFE-Coated guidewire is a smooth, flat wire wrapped over a stainless steel core designed to provide balanced performance. The stiff proximal shaft helps ensure pushability and control while the floppy distal tip helps enable precise, less traumatic advancement.

What is a workhorse wire?

Steel guidewires can be further subdivided based on performance attributes: workhorse wires, which are designed to provide support, torque, and lubricity for passage through various complex anatomies, as well as to allow delivery of stents, catheters, balloons, and other devices; and chronic total occlusion (CTO) wires …

IS IT guy wire or guide wire?

The Guy Wire Name Guy wire has many names. It is also known as guyed wire, guy cable, guy strand, and guy anchors. People also (mistakenly) call it guide wire. The name guy wire is derived from the term guy: defined as a rope, cord or cable used to steady, guide, or secure something.

What is the difference between guidewire and catheter?

Dilators are short, stiff, thick-walled sections of catheter, available in a variety of sizes, with a long, tapered end that spread tissues more easily than a diagnostic catheter. Advancing a catheter over a stiffer wire also may facilitate passage of the catheter into the vessel and prevent guidewire kinking.

Why do you need an Amplatz guide wire?

The Amplatz wires provide an increased level of stiffness that delivers support and stability within the vasculature for enhanced navigation. Added stiffness also facilitates catheter placement and advancement of other devices such as dilatation catheters and stent catheters during contralateral access.

How big is an Amplatz super stiff guidewire?

Ordering Information Order Number UPN Tip Design Size 640104 M0066401041 7cm Bentson-Type .035in x 145cm 640105 M0066401051 3mm J-Tip .035in x 145cm 640108 M0066401081 3.5cm Flexible .035in x 145cm 640106 M0066401061 6cm Bentson-Type .038in x 145cm

What do you need to know about the Olympus Amplatz?

Amplatz. The Olympus Amplatz guidewire is a smooth, flat wire wrapped over a stainless steel core designed to provide balanced performance. The super-stiff proximal shaft of the Amplatz helps ensure ultimate pushability and control while the floppy distal shaft helps enable precise, less traumatic advancement.

Where can I buy Cook Medical Amplatz wire?

Intended for diagnostic and interventional procedures. The products on this website are available for sale in the United States. For products available in other countries, please choose one of our other websites from the region selector at the top of the site or contact your local Cook Medical representative.