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Boston Scientific LithoVue System vs Cook Medical Ascend 7.5 Fr
Both are single-use ureteroscopes. Every figure below is transcribed from the manufacturers' own documents.
What separates them
- Cook Medical Ascend 7.5 Fr has the slimmer shaft — 7.5 Fr against 9.5 Fr for the Boston Scientific LithoVue System.
- Cook Medical Ascend 7.5 Fr has the wider deflection — 285° against 270° for the Boston Scientific LithoVue System.
Boston Scientific LithoVue System
- Insertion / shaft diameter
- 9.5 Fr (≤3.23 mm) shaft · 7.7 Fr tip
- Working channel
- 3.6 Fr
- Deflection
- 270° up / 270° down
- Image resolution
- Not stated (digital CMOS imager)
- Field of view
- Not stated
- Working length
- Not stated
- Runs on
- LithoVue System Workstation (touch PC and mobile cart, M0067911000)
- Regulatory status
- Not stated in the cited document
- Laser / energy compatibility
- Compatible with laser lithotripsy — "uses existing technologies and familiar surgical tools"
- Sterility and packaging
- Not stated in the cited document
- NHS Supply Chain
- Not confirmed — no framework listing on file
Cook Medical Ascend 7.5 Fr
- Insertion / shaft diameter
- 7.5 Fr
- Working channel
- 3.6 Fr
- Deflection
- 285° up / 285° down
- Image resolution
- Not stated
- Field of view
- 120°
- Working length
- 670 mm
- Runs on
- Endoscopic Video Image Processor HD, ASUS-IPD-V200 (13.3" LCD)
- Regulatory status
- Not stated in the cited document
- Laser / energy compatibility
- Quanta System lasers and fibres, sold by Cook in the UK, Ireland, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland and the US
- Sterility and packaging
- Not stated in the cited document
- NHS Supply Chain
- Not confirmed — no framework listing on file
Boston Scientific LithoVue System in full · Cook Medical Ascend 7.5 Fr in full