Intended use
The device builds and monitors pressure in a balloon catheter, then deflates it. It is used during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI/PTCA), peripheral angioplasty (PTA), stent deployment and other vascular interventions.
Typical users are interventional angiologists and cardiologists, and vascular and endovascular surgeons.
- Unlock by pressing
- Screw load for fine pressure build-up
- Mechanical gauge, no battery
- 20 ml barrel, 30 atm
Specifications
- Product
- Balloon catheter inflation device (inflator / indeflator)
- Barrel volume
- 20 ml
- Maximum pressure
- 30 atm
- Gauge
- Mechanical
- Class
- Class I, sterile, measuring
- Use
- Single use
- Total mass
- 167.9 g (including 27 g pressure gauge)
- Design
- Disassembly with standard hand tools
Materials
The housing and mechanism are made from a small set of engineering plastics, plus metal parts and a seal.
- Polycarbonate (PC)
- ABS
- Polyamide (PA)
- TPU (pressure tube)
- Metals (pressure gauge, screws)
- Silicone / mixed parts (seal, lubricant)
The pressure gauge (27 g, metal-dominant) is the most contamination-sensitive part. It is removed and incinerated. About 84% of the device mass goes to cleaning and recycling.
Why it comes apart
Most inflation devices are glued or welded, so they can only be burned. This one is screwed together, so each part can be washed, sorted by material and recycled into granulate.
See the recycling process, the evidence behind the numbers, and what hospitals can save with the cost and waste calculator.
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