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Novel Work Surface Facilitates Interventional Radiology

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 24 May 2017
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Image: A novel platform provides a stable environment for femoral PCI procedures (Photo courtesy of Adept Medical).
Image: A novel platform provides a stable environment for femoral PCI procedures (Photo courtesy of Adept Medical).
A stable, radiolucent platform placed over the patient during femoral artery access procedures replaces the current practice of laying procedural equipment over the patient’s legs.

The Adept Medical IR Platform provides an ultimate stable solution for interventional radiologists during catheter and guide wire manipulation, with a large work area for laying out equipment. The platform can be set up at two different lengths according to equipment needs; the stand-alone platform is suited for shorter wire procedures such as rapid exchange catheter systems, while an attachable extension adds extra length when using over-the-wire catheter systems or neuroradiology wires.

Placed over the patient’s legs once they are in a supine position on the imaging table, the IR Platform is made of a carbon fiber composite that is light, radiolucent, strong, and easy to set up and remove for each patient. The platform can be height-adjusted to suit the specific patient size, ensuring the platform surface’s feathered leading edge can be exactly aligned with the planned femoral access site. When needed for restless patients, the IR platform can also be locked down to ensure that their movements will not dislodge it.

“This is a specially designed clinician work surface offering stability, a secured work surface over a restless patient, and vast work area with additional extension piece,” noted the company in their blog. “These procedures require long wires, sometimes up to three meters in length that are fed in to the patient’s vascular system through the femoral artery. They could be ablating an embolism in the brain of stroke patient or placing a stent in the coronary artery, both of which require fine control of the wire.”

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