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Consistent, reliable Terumo Glidewire performance that gets you there. With Terumo Glide Technology hydrophilic coating for smooth, rapid movement through tortuous vessels and crossability over difficult lesions.
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Consistent, reliable Terumo Glidewire performance that gets you there. With Terumo Glide Technology hydrophilic coating for smooth, rapid movement through tortuous vessels and crossability over difficult lesions.
No gliding wire can a-day beat this device.
In my oncologic experience the wire takes me trough the hepatic artery as none of the supposed competitors can do!
Smaller ones are used in example for difficult PICC positioning, larger to help in difficult PCN or billiary, before heavy duties wires.
Original terumo is still unbeaten on the battlefield of interventions.
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We were discussing "desert island" equipment at a meeting last year and the Terumo Glidewire was acknowledged to be one device none of us would be without. I tried a couple of alternatives this year during a restructuring of our inventory but none were quite the same. What did IRs do before this came along?
(1 users found helpful)Use either the straight or curved tip, usually stiff glidewire for negotiating oesophageal, biliary or ureteric strictures. Pair with either a long BMC or 4F straight catheter. Often the combination of BMC and curved wire does not find a tight central stricture as the wire continually curves back on itself. So change either to a straight catheter or straight tip glidewire. Can either use a torque device or a pair of arterial mosquito forceps for torquing the wire.
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