In Brief: St. Jude
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
St. Jude: Introducing its ArmorGlide intra-aortic balloon catheter coating the week of March 20 at the American College of Cardiology convention in New Orleans. The company will begin shipping its RediGuard and TaperSeal catheter lines with the coating in April. When activated with sterile saline, ArmorGlide "becomes slick," making the catheter "easier to insert," the company says. The coating was cleared by FDA in February...
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