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Arrow Introduces Arrow Simplicity Micro-Puncture Introducer Set

April 5, 2005

Arrow International, a company specializing in central venous catheter products, introduced the Arrow Simplicity Micro-Puncture Introducer Set, a new dialysis access product to be used in combination with Arrow's chronic hemodialysis catheters.

Micropuncture is a common technique used to gain safe and easy access to the patient's vasculature, as well as to determine the appropriate length catheter for the patient prior to catheterization. The Arrow Simplicity was designed to simplify this technique by adding more functionality into the guidewire. The innovative Arrow Simplicity uses a unique color-coded guidewire that facilitates optimal catheter tip and exit site position, and defines necessary catheter length prior to catheter insertion.

The Arrow Simplicity guidewire is designed to be used with Arrow's Cannon chronic hemodialysis catheter. The four colored bands on the Arrow Simplicity guidewire correspond to color-coded packaging on the Cannon catheter. The tip-first, retrograde-tunneled design of the Cannon provides fast, exact tip placement with superior flow, clearances and patency that lead to superior dialysis outcomes.