Healthcare Professionals

Telescope

Guide Extension Catheter

  • Close up of the Telescope guide extension catheter

Overview

An extension of you

The Performance You Want For Your Complex Clinical Practice.

In difficult cases, guide extension catheters (GEC) provide extra backup support and improve access to distal lesions.1

Telescope™ GEC features bold technology — and our market-leading2 catheter expertise.

Superior deliverability3 and pushability4

Telescope GEC has superior deliverability3 to assist in difficult cases.

Graph showing guide catheter tip comparisons

Pushability is a critical component of deliverability.

Graph showing pushability comparisons

TruFlex™ soft polymer tip

You want a soft, flexible tip with responsiveness when you need it.

Our extruded TruFlex tip required at least 39% less force to deflect.5

 

Graph showing deliverability comparisons

 

Tip design 

Diagram showing close up of Telescope TruFlex
  1. 2-mm TruFlex tip
  2. 1-mm distal marker band
  3. 5-mm distal segment featuring soft polymer
  4. Main jacket

Smoothpass technology

After positioning a GEC, the ability to deliver stents, balloons, and other interventional devices through the catheter is critical.

Close up image of Telescope entry port

Telescope GEC with SmoothPass technology includes three components that work together to help channel interventional devices:

Close up image of straightened catheter
  1. Tapered distal pushwire section — transitions from solid, round, proximal pushwire for flexibility
  2. Short 4 cm polymer on-ramp — maintains superior deliverability3 and channels interventional devices
  3. Entry port — contributes to smooth device entry and delivery

Telescope GEC in glass aortic arch model

Glass aortic arch model image
  1. Spade-shaped marker band confirms orientation of catheter on fluoroscopy
  2. Entry port
  3. Resolute Onyx™ DES traveling along the on-ramp toward the entry port
  4. On-ramp

Distal 25 cm of catheter:  

  • Coil-reinforced design and hydrophilic coating help improve flexibility and deliverability
  • PTFE liner provides a low-friction inner lumen
     
Looped catheter close up image
  1. Flexible TruFlex soft polymer tip5
  2. Rigid polymer in proximal jacket for luminal integrity6
  3. Flexible polymer in main jacket for deliverability
  4. Solid, round pushwire featuring superior pushability4
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†

Bench test data from 2019 may not be indicative of clinical performance.  

1

Sambu N, Fernandez J, Shah NC, O’Kane P. The GuideLiner®: an interventionist’s experience of their first 50 cases: “the mostly good, rarely bad, beware of the ugly!” Interv. Cardiol. 2013;5(4):389–404.

2

Based on guide catheter and aspiration catheter market share reports and data on file at
Medtronic.

3

Deliverability bench testing: Telescope™ GEC 6 F vs. GuideLiner™* V3 GEC 5.5 F/6 F vs. Guidezilla™* II GEC 6 F. Differences among the means are significant if p < 0.05. N = 8 for each GEC tested. 10 test cycles per GEC. Results measure maximum force.

4

Pushability bench testing: Telescope™ GEC 6 F vs. GuideLiner™* V3 GEC 6 F vs. Guidezilla™* II GEC 6 F. Differences among the means are significant if p <0.05.  N = 8 for each GEC tested. Results measure maximum force.

5

Soft tip compression bench testing: Telescope™ GEC 6 F vs. GuideLiner™* V3 GEC 5.5 F/6 F vs. Guidezilla™* II GEC 6 F. Differences among the means are significant if p <0.05.  N = 8 for each GEC tested.  Results measure maximum force.

6

Details on luminal integrity are in the Telescope GEC design freeze document (internal design document).