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Guide Wire Exam Questions and Answers List 4 types of distal tip covers - Answer-core to tip shaping ribbon full spring coil full polymer What rail support would an IC traditionally choose for a workhorse wire? POBA? - Answer-workhorse = moderate POBA = light (floppy) List the 4 categories used to describe the difference in the tip flexibility spectrum - Answer-Light (floppy) Intermediate Standard "CTO" What is the advantage of a hydrophilic wire? - Answer-better crossability and trackability Frontline wires are also known as what? - Answer-Workhorse Guidewire Why would an IC pull a second wire in a case? - Answer-additional support first GW failed: unsuccessful lesion access/crossing, damaged wire

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Guide Wire Exam Questions and
Answers
What are the three functions of a guide wire? - Answer-vascular access to coronary
arteries
lesion crossability
rail system for device delivery

Name the three primary parts if a guidewire? - Answer-distal tip
core
coating

List the benefits/trafeoffs of a large core diameter - Answer-less flexibility
more torque
more rail support

(small is opposite)

List 4 types of distal tip covers - Answer-core to tip
shaping ribbon
full spring coil
full polymer

What rail support would an IC traditionally choose for a workhorse wire?
POBA? - Answer-workhorse = moderate
POBA = light (floppy)

List the 4 categories used to describe the difference in the tip flexibility spectrum -
Answer-Light (floppy)
Intermediate
Standard
"CTO"

What is the advantage of a hydrophilic wire? - Answer-better crossability and trackability

Frontline wires are also known as what? - Answer-Workhorse Guidewire

Why would an IC pull a second wire in a case? - Answer-additional support
first GW failed: unsuccessful lesion access/crossing, damaged wire

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