Surface evaluation of cardiac angiographic catheters after simulated use and reprocessing

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1419-1425

  Lucas, Thabata Coaglio ^a   Oréfice, Rodrigo Lambert ^a   Pinotti, Marcos ^a   Huebner, Rudolf ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Catheter reuse; Diagnostic techniques; Molecular structure; Reprocessing cycle; Surface characterization

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTODEGRADATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TENSILE TESTING;

CARDIOVASCULAR; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES; REPROCESSING CYCLES; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE EVALUATIONS;

CATHETERS;

EID: 70849120079     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.08.102     Document Type: Article

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