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Peripheral Guide Wires

Hi-Torque Winn Guide Wires

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Overview

HT Winn

 

 

A new standard in peripheral specialty guide wires designed for challenging lesions

.014” Hi-Torque Winn family offers a selection of tip loads with excellent tactile feel, superb torque and pushability for intraluminal crossing.

 

 

Features

Feel. Cross. Winn.

HT winn

Unique tip offerings

Cross confidently

  • 3 tips with varying tip design and increasing tip stiffness
    • Winn 40 – tip stiffness of 4.8 grams
    • Winn 80 – tip stiffness of 9.7 grams
    • Winn 200T – tip stiffness of 13 grams
Ordering Information
Description
Stock Number
Wire Size (in)
Tip
Tip Stiffness (g)
 Tip Diameter (in)
Wire Length (cm)
Hi-Torque Winn 40
 1012466
 0.014
 Straight
4.8
 0.012
 190
Hi-Torque Winn 40
 1012467
 0.014
 Straight
4.8
 0.012
 300
Hi-Torque Winn 80
 1012468
 0.014
 Straight
9.7
 0.012
 190
Hi-Torque Winn 80
 1012469
 0.014
 Straight
9.7
 0.012
 300
Hi-Torque Winn 200T
 1012474
 0.014
 Tapered
13.0
 0.009
 190
Hi-Torque Winn 200T
 1012475
 0.014
 Tapered
13.0
 0.009
 300

 

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Indications and Important Safety Information

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HI-TORQUE Guide Wires for PTCA, PTA, and Stents

 

INDICATIONS

This HI-TORQUE Guide Wire is intended to facilitate the placement of balloon dilatation catheters during Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) and Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA). This guide wire may also be used with compatible stent devices during therapeutic procedures.

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Not intended for use in the cerebral vasculature or with atherectomy devices.

 

WARNINGS

This device is designed and intended for ONE-TIME USE ONLY. Do not resterilize and / or reuse.

 

Carefully observe the instructions under “Do Not” and “Do” below. Failure to do so may result in vessel trauma, guide wire damage, guide wire tip separation, or stent damage. If resistance is observed at any time, determine the cause under fluoroscopy and take remedial action as needed.  

Use the most suitable guide wire for the lesion being treated.

 

Do Not:

  • Push, auger, withdraw, or torque a guide wire that meets resistance.
  • Torque a guide wire if the tip becomes entrapped within the vasculature.
  • Allow the guide wire tip to remain in a prolapsed condition.

 

Do:

  • Advance or withdraw the guide wire slowly.
  • Use the radiopaque marker of the interventional device to confirm position.
  • Examine the tip movement under fluoroscopy before manipulating, moving, or torquing the guide wire.
  • Observe the wire under fluoroscopy for tip buckling, which is a sign of resistance.
  • Maintain continuous flush while removing and reinserting the guide wire to prevent air from entering the catheter system. Perform exchanges slowly to prevent air entry and / or trauma.
  • When reintroducing the guide wire, confirm that the interventional device tip is free within the vessel lumen and that the tip is parallel with the vessel wall.
  • Use extreme caution when moving a guide wire through a non-endothelialized stent, or through stent struts into a bifurcated vessel. Use of this technique carries additional patient risks, including the risk that the wire may become caught on the stent strut.
  • Consider that if a secondary wire is placed in a bifurcation branch, this wire may need to be retracted prior to stent deployment because there is additional risk that the secondary wire may become entrapped between the vessel wall and the stent.

 

For Winn family only: The Winn family of guide wires have distal ends of varying stiffness. Operate these guide wires carefully so as to not injure the blood vessel, observing the information in these instructions. The higher torque performance, stiffer distal ends, and / or higher advancement force may present a higher risk of perforation or injury than a guide wire with a more pliable distal end. Therefore, use the guide wire with the least stiff distal end that will treat the lesion, and use extreme care to minimize the risk of perforation or other damage to blood vessels.

 

PRECAUTIONS

Guide wires are delicate instruments and should be handled carefully. Prior to use and when possible during the procedure, inspect the guide wire carefully for bends, kinks, or other damage. Do not use damaged guide wires. Using a damaged guide wire may result in vessel damage and / or inaccurate torque response.

 

Confirm the compatibility of the guide wire diameter with the interventional device before actual use.

 

Free movement of the guide wire within the interventional device is an important feature of a steerable guide wire system because it gives the user valuable tactile information. Test the system for any resistance prior to use. Adjust or replace the hemostatic valve with an adjustable valve if it is found to inhibit guide wire movement.

 

Never attach the torque device to the modified portion of the proximal end of the extendible guide wire; otherwise, guide wire damage may occur, preventing the ability to attach the DOC Guide Wire Extension.

 

HI-TORQUE Guide Wires with Hydrophilic Coating: Avoid abrasion of the hydrophilic coating. Do not withdraw or manipulate the hydrophilic-coated wire in a metal cannula or sharp-edged object.



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