Journal: Endoscopy International Open
Article Title: Thermal changes in guidewires used during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography during electrical conductance: Ex-vivo safety experiment
doi: 10.1055/a-2536-7997
Figure Lengend Snippet: Table 1 Thermal changes produced by commercially available guidewires during electrical conductance via surgical generator in our experiment.
Article Snippet: We tested heat generation of 11 wires commonly used in ERCP: Glidewire 0.018” (Terumo Interventional Systems, Somerset, New Jersey, United States), Novagold 0.018” (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States), Road Runner 0.018” (Cook Medical, Bloomington, Indiana, United States), Tracer Metro 0.021” (Cook Medical, Bloomington, Indiana, United States), Glidewire 0.025” (Terumo Interventional Systems, Somerset, New Jersey, United States), Visiglide 0.025” (Olympus, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, United States), Revowave 0.025” (Olympus, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, United States), Jagwire Revolution 0.025” (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States), Glidewire 0.035” (Terumo Interventional Systems, Somerset, New Jersey, United States), Jagwire 0.035” (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States), and Hydra Jagwire 0.035” (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States) ( ).
Techniques: Produced