Guidewires in clinical practice: Applications and troubleshooting

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-195

  Kipling, Mike ^a   Mohammed, Aza ^b   Medding, Robert N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH TEES   (United Kingdom)

^b AYR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Guidewire; Seldinger; Technique; Urology; Uses

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; NITINOL; POLITEF; BIOMATERIAL;

ALGOMETRY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTIFACT; BLADDER STONE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MATERIAL COATING; NEPHROLITHOTOMY; NEPHROSTOMY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETAINED INSTRUMENT; REVIEW; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THROMBOSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; URETEROSCOPY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; INSTRUMENTATION; PRESSURE;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; PRESSURE;

EID: 67449096150     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.6.2.187     Document Type: Review

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