It is intended to guide and support a guide wire during access of the vasculature, allow for wire exchanges and provide a conduit for the delivery of other medical devices and agents.
The Guiding Catheter has a large nontapered lunmen that allows contrast medium injections and pressure monitoring and facilitates the peripheral vascular passage of interventional devices.
The angiographic catheter is a tool used to examine coronary arteries. It is inserted through a small incision in the groin or arm to reach the heart, and then passed through the coronary artery. The catheter is equipped with a tiny balloon on its tip, which is inflated to block blood flow through the artery so that an image of its interior can be captured by X-ray.