Factory fixation of an arc curve into brachial coronary artery catheters of the manipulative type: a new curve for Sones' type catheters.
Advantage was found in factory fixing an approximation of the curve that has long been hand-formed at the tableside by angiographers using the manipulative type brachial-coronary technique. It consists of a 7 cm arc of a circle of 10 cm diameter. Used in 68 different patients, it was found to definitely facilitate and speed selective cannulation of the coronary artery ostia as compared to previous curves.
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D001916:Brachial Artery; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male