With traditional harvesting, the greater saphenous vein or radial artery was removed by way of a long incision (or multiple incisions) in the leg or arm. Many patients found the pain associated with this surgery to be more uncomfortable than the chest incision that exposes the heart for surgery!
In addition, the potential for wound complications and the delayed healing of larger or multiple incisions led to longer recovery periods and a slower return to normal activities.
The ClearGlide endoscopic vessel harvesting system is an innovative technique to harvest the blood vessels required for bypass surgery with a less invasive form of endoscopic surgery.
You and your staff benefit from:
A more flexible system: Saphenous vein or radial artery harvesting in a single system
Equivalent procedure time: incision to close
Uncompromised conduit quality
Reduced wound complications mean fewer follow-up office visits
An enhanced endoscopic skill set that can differentiate your practice
Your patients benefit from:
A shorter length of stay
Less post-operative pain and reduced wound complications
When compared with the traditional procedure, ClearGlide Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting offers a number of advantages for the clinician:
Flexibility
The ClearGlide system gives clinicians the freedom to perform the harvesting
procedure that suits varying patient anatomies, user techniques and capital equipment. Both saphenous vein and radial artery harvesting can be performed with the same system!
Vessel Integrity
The ClearGlide Precision Bipolar produces a strong seal with uniform coagulation
Patient Safety
With no reliance on closed insufflation, ClearGlide has a lower risk of CO2 embolism.
CO2 embolism often results on conversion from EVH to open vessel harvest
ClearGlide systems facilitate a truly single incision harvest, minimizing the need for
extra incisions in infection prone areas, such as the ankle and the groin
The incidence and volume of residual clots in harvested vessels is reduced when using ClearGlide1
1. Brown, EN, Poston RS, et al. Strategies to reduce intraluminal clot formation in endoscopically harvested saphenous veins, The Journal of thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2007; 134, (5): 1259 - 1265
Caution: Federal law (USA) restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician.
For indications, contraindications, precautions and warnings for each device, please refer to the Instructions For Use.
Why Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting?
