Instruments at a Glance

Instrument name: AL-1 Catheter

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Pushing through calcified aorta to push calcifications aside

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures, such as aortic valvuloplasty

Instrument name: Aplax Stiff Guidewire

Alternate name:Aplax, support wire, stiff guide wire

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Support wire during procedure

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catheterization procedures such as aortic valvuloplasty

Instrument name: Arterial Balloon Catheter

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Pushing calcification by fracturing calcific deposits within the valve leaflets, stretching the aortic annulus, and separating the calcified commissures to help open valve

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures, such as aortic valvuloplasty

Instrument name: Balloon Cardiac Catheter

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Pushing the blockage to the sidewall of the vessel and to push the stent into the sidewall of the vessel

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures

Instrument name: Boomerang Closure Device

Alternate name: Closure device

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Suturing vessel after minimally invasive procedure

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catheterization minimally invasive procedures when a suture is needed to close a vessel

Instrument name: Cannula

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Gaining access to the femoral artery during transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgery

Specialty commonly used in: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgery

Instrument name: Cardioversion pad

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Conducting current from cardioversion machine to patient and to watch heart rhythm

Specialty commonly used in: Cardioversion procedures

Instrument name: Diagnostic Catheter

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Injection of contrast dye to visualize the heart and the coronary arteries during procedure

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures, especially during diagnostic procedures

Instrument name: Introducer Needle

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Gaining venous or arterial access and supporting the placement of a sheath

Specialty commonly used in: Electrophysiology or cardiac catheterization procedures to gain vascular access

Instrument name: Long Wire

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Maintaining location when going transseptal to the left side of the heart and to establish position of the catheter

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures

Instrument name: Over the Wire Balloon Catheter

Alternate name: OTW

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Placement over the wire to hold catheter in place during procedure with the inflation of a balloon

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures, most commonly alcohol septal ablation

Instrument name: Pigtail Wire

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Procedures that require a wire to maintain its position in the heart during the procedure

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catheterization procedures

Instrument name: Right Venous Pacing Catheter

Alternate name: RV catheter

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Transvenous pacing of heart

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catherization procedures that require pacing of the heart during the procedure

Instrument name: TAVR Ballon System

Alternate name: Balloon, brand name

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Placement of an aortic valve during minimally invasive surgery

Specialty commonly used in: Aortic valve procedures

Instrument name: TAVR Deployment Device

Alternate name: Deployment device, brand name

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Placement of an aortic valve during minimally invasive surgery

Specialty commonly used in: Aortic valve procedures

Instrument name: Transeptal Needle

Alternate name: None

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Gaining access into the atrial septum

Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catheterization procedures when crossing the heart from the right side to the left through the atrial septum

Instrument name: Transeptal Sheath

Alternate name: Sheath, Transeptal

Instrument category: Accessory

Used for: Gaining access into the posterior–inferior portion of the fossa ovalis to place a Watchman device

Specialty commonly used in: Implantation of a Watchman device