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The SOS Omni selective catheter features a soft, atraumatic, Super-radiopaque tip intended to reform in the thoracic aorta. The catheter should be pulled from the descending aorta into the abdominal aorta with a floppy Bentson-type guidewire “leading,” sometimes with a...
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The SOS Omni selective catheter features a soft, atraumatic, Super-radiopaque tip intended to reform in the thoracic aorta. The catheter should be pulled from the descending aorta into the abdominal aorta with a floppy Bentson-type guidewire “leading,” sometimes with a rotating motion.
We have found that it can in fact be formed in smaller sections of the aorta and even common ilac arteries. It is a mini sidewinder 2, sometimes called a 'shepherds crook'. Useful for crossing the bifurcation, internal iliac artery/IMA cannulation and other selective catheterisations.
Since from the death of the 6F Right Hepatic Catheter from Cook I was waiting for a such useful tool.
Cobra C2 is my first choice to engage both superior mesenteric and celiac trunk, but when the cobra sleeves away during microcatheter superselctive manouvres the SOS is the right one.
It simply reforms its shape in abdominal aorta, avoiding to go for the arch as nedeed for Simmons ones.
It provides into its 5F the strenght to support microwires and microcath forewarding.
The braided one is a little too stiff in tortous abdominal aortas.
See this cath in action in our video section at minute 3:00 in "DC bead TACE for hepatocellular carcinoma".
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