Steerable Medical Devices Market Structure Analysis for the Period 2016 - 2024
Verfasser: yogesh on Monday, 11 March 2019A steerable medical device offers the flexibility and agility required to perform crucial medical diagnostic, interventional and surgical procedures. Access to internal target locations in the human body via these devices is generally minimally invasive, and can be either percutaneous, or through natural body orifices. Certain medical procedures, such as those to treat upper urinary tract related medical condition for a patient, require medical instruments to be inserted into the body. It is crucial that these instruments are specifically positioned at a target site within the patient's body. In certain procedures, an instrument such as a cystoscope, is initially introduced into the bladder of the patient. A guidewire or a similar medical instrument is subsequently introduced into the patient's body through the cystoscope. The progressing farthest end of the guidewire is necessitated to be directed to the target location, such as to and through the entrance of the patient's ureter. This is a complex process, and requires optimum maneuverability to be completed in a successful manner. The access to difficult to reach sites during interventional, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures is provided by a steerable medical device. A steerable medical device is used to lend enhanced direction to an advancing guidewire or other advancing instrument such as a biopsy tool, stone retrieval basket etc.