Attention!  You may animate the guide wire tip and add narration to this page by clicking on the guide wire tip and then right click to select play. To stop the narration right click and select play again. WinMed, Inc. Presenting the VariSoft In Vivo Tip Controllable Tapered Steerable Guide Wire for Interventional Cardiology Providing in vivo variable tip shape, variable tip support and variable tip push. From this day forward, the only guide wire your laboratory will require for coronary interventional procedures. VariSoft is:    Very reliable, one continuous core welded at the tip        Very simple, use as any standard steerable wire          Very adaptable, an approach and crossing wire             Very accurate, control for directing/torqueing                Very cost effective, saving time and money                   Very Safe, the flexibility/softness of a .010" On this page you may view a complete video sales presentation normally seen watching a CD sent by mail by selecting video one or two at the bottom of the page. The videos will cover all of the benefits and features of the VariSoft Guide Wire and will include still photos and full motion videos of the actual VariSoft in action, as well as, instructional simulations of how VariSoft may accomplish all of the claims made by WinMed for the VariSoft Guide Wire. The first section of the video lasts 6 minutes for an overview of all of the capabilities of VariSoft. If allowed to continue for another 10 minutes all of the benefits and features are explained in detail. VariSoft allows for independent torque to just the distal spring segment and control of the tip shape, support, and push using the proximal DASH steering handle supplied with VariSoft. By retracting a restraining core wire, which is attached to the smooth ball welded tip of VariSoft and extending down the central axis of VariSoft to the proximal DASH handle, the physician, with one hand operation of the DASH handle, may control the VariSoft tip characteristics in vivo. Retracting the core is likened to pulling on a guy wire attached to the distal end of VariSoft, thus tensioning the distal spring segment to achieve greater column strength. The greater column strength gives more radial and axial support and thus straightens and adds more push and more support to the entire 35 cm spring tip. This allows VariSoft to exhibit greater strength properties than would normally be available in comparable small diameter guide wires.  When the core is relaxed to allow the tip to resume the user-formed curve, VariSoft is softer and more flexible than standard wires because the entire spring segment is free floating over a smaller diameter core. The core and outer spring taper to a smaller diameter .010" tip resulting in a very supple and very safe guide wire and yet has greater torque than a standard wire because of two means of torque by using the DASH dual collets. So, by using the central core, VariSoft provides a means for mechanical advantage over fixed wires in being softer when relaxed and firmer when tensioned than standard wires. VariSoft also capitalizes on the mechanical advantage of concentrating the forces of a .014" wire into the smaller .010" tip to enhance crossing tight lesions because of not only a lower profile, but enhanced push and control of the body of a .014" directed to the smaller area of a .010" tip, for a concentration of the force. Utilizing the DASH handle to control the VariSoft tapered tip is similar to threading a needle by forming a pointed tip in the thread for a lower profile and holding the thread close to the opening to provide greater force/rigidity near where the thread will be advanced through the narrow opening of the needle. The tip of VariSoft is already tapered to .010" and becomes straight to aim toward the opening and more rigid when tensioned by the DASH handle.     WinMed, Inc. Dundee Park, Bldg 17 Door 6 P.O. Box 2087 Andover, MA 01810 Tel: 978 590-4246 Fax 978 470-2270 email order@winmed-inc.com You are currently viewing page two.