GUIDE WIRE
- Guide wire tip to be delivered to the desired position in a vessel
- Transmit rotational forces from the operators hand to the tip
- Advance balloon catheters/other devices on Guidewire
- Allows moving the distal tip to search for the true lumen.
- Permits shape memory retention of the distal tip throughout
- better appreciated with non-coated/hydrophobic coated, coil tipped wires and it with hydrophilic coating.
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