Cardiovascular steerable sheaths

TourGuide™ steerable sheath

<p>The TourGuide™ steerable sheath precisely guides your next intervention.</p>

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Features

Advanced catheter technology

Provides the strength and conformability needed for delivering various interventional devices.

Curve retention

Maintains desired deflection angle, providing a stable platform for delivering devices to their desired destination.‡

180° tip deflection

Physician-directed to deliver diagnostic and therapeutic devices to a wide variety of vessel takeoffs and difficult anatomic areas.1

Three working lengths (45, 55, and 90 cm)

Designed to access indicated areas to perform interventions.

Design features

Features of the TourGuide™ steerable sheath include:

  1. Radiopaque distal marker
  2. Tapered distal tip
  3. Hydrophobic coated sheath
  4. Braided shaft
  5. Rotating collar
  6. Tip position indicator
  7. Hemostatic valve
The TourGuide™ steerable sheath design features include seven parts.

Ordering information

Item number Inner diameter size (Fr) Usable length (cm) Deflection length at 180° (mm) Deflection length at 90° (mm)
TG0654509 6.5 45  9  25 
TG0654517 6.5 45 17 33 
TG0655509 6.5 55 9 25 
TG0655517 6.5 55 17 33 
TG0659009 6.5 90 9 25 
TG0704509 7.0 45 9 25 
TG0704517 7.0 45 17 33 
TG0705509 7.0 55 9 25 
TG0705517 7.0 55 17 33 
TG0709009 7.0 90 9 25 
TG0854517 8.5 45 17 33 
TG0855517 8.5 55 17 33 
TG0855522 8.5 55 22 40 
TG0859017 8.5 90 17 33 

† Bench test data on file at Medtronic. Test data not indicative of clinical performance.

‡ Lock feature inherent in design to hold curve while delivering devices.

  1. Adams JD, Schonholz CJ. Variable curve directable guide sheath from aptus to facilitate other challenging endovascular procedures. Presented at VEITH Symposium 2015. Session 47: New techniques, technology, and concepts.