Special Features:

Enables controlled crossing of chronic total occlusions using blunt microdissection to create a channel through the occulusion to facilitate wire placement; actuating jaws that open; catheter steerability; (f) sheath compatibility

Properties:

A component of a catheter and needle unit, intravenous. It is a flexible, homogenous, hollow, cylindrical item, having a funnel or luer end, suitable for introduction into a vein. It is nontoxic and free from tissue reaction, and capable of insertion through a hypodermic needle of specific size. For items without funnel or luer end, see tube, intravenous.