Teleflex receives FDA clearance for Wattson temporary pacing guidewire

Teleflex has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its Wattson temporary pacing guidewire. A press release reports that this is the first commercially available bipolar temporary pacing guidewire designed specifically for use during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and balloon aortic valvuloplasty. It adds that this “innovative device” offers clinicians a 0.035” pigtailed [...]