Japan-based Future offers specialty and workhorse guidewires. The agreement includes the first 400 cm, 0.018″ peripheral ...

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Cook Medical recalls catheters over fault linked to 3 serious injuries The company began the recall after receiving four field complaints about tip separation before and during use.

Differences in design characteristics among catheters encompass: [45] steerable electrode catheters versus balloon catheters; the application of radiofrequency versus ultrasound energy; unipolar ...

Pena Perez, P.G., Hernandez Madrid, A. and Gonzalez Rebollo, J.M. (2002) Radiofre-quency Ablation of the Cavotricuspid Isthmus in Typical Atrial Flutter Standard versus Irrigated-Tip Catheter. A ...

The placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) for venous access is a common clinical routine. Nonetheless, various clinical studies report that CVC insertions are unsuccessful in up to 20% of all ...

Central venous catheter (CVC) tip cultures are useful in the assessment of a patient with a potential catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI). However, these results can be misleading ...

These effects combine to increase the distance from the catheter tip at which flow reversal can still be achieved. 21 Therefore, the novel ‘superbore’ aspiration catheters may optimize local flow ...

Background and purpose Flow arrest with balloon guide catheters (BGCs) is becoming increasingly recognized as critical to optimizing patient outcomes for mechanical thrombectomy. We performed a ...