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Radio-frequency catheter and Laser fibre for Varicose Vein Ablation procedures
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Radio-frequency catheter and Laser fibre for Varicose Vein Ablation procedures

Daniel Krell from Frontier Medical demonstrates a Radio-Frequency catheter and Laser fibre used for varicose vein ablation procedures.

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What you're looking at here is the vein clear catheter from RF Medical that's distributed by Frontier and what you'll see here is that this is a radiofrequency segmental radiofrequency catheter And that is it ablates the vein in sections as long as that golden as that golden coil so that coil will heat up to 120 degrees and Stay active for 20 seconds before automatically shutting down at which point the surgeon moves it to the next surgeon in the vein and repeats that process at 120 degrees for 20 seconds. That's the radio frequency catheter. And as we mentioned, it's only about two millimeters in diameter. It's very small. I might just show you also the radial laser fiber. This is the hub that plugs into the generator box, and then you have a certain amount of call that uncalls and goes into the patient. At the end here, you can see there's a glass tip where the laser beam is fired and then is radially dispersed into a nice corona distal to the end of that laser tip. But this laser tip, it's about a millimeter in diameter. It's very, very easy to use, very flexible, and it's very, very painless in its use.

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