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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: Amplatz Stiff Guidewire
Alternate name: Amplatz, support wire, stiff guide wire, aplax
Used for: Support wire during procedure
Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac catheterization procedures such as aortic valvuloplasty
Instrument name: Arterial Balloon Catheter
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
Instrument name: Balloon Cardiac Catheter
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
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
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
Used for: Conducting current from cardioversion machine to patient and to watch heart rhythm
Specialty commonly used in: Cardioversion procedures
Instrument name: Diagnostic Catheter
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
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
Used for: Maintaining location when going transseptal to the left side of the heart and to establish position of the catheter
Instrument name: Over the Wire Balloon Catheter
Alternate name: OTW
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
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
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
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 name: Transeptal Needle
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
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