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Active Venting Solutions – Rapid AV™ Catheter

The Rapid AV™ catheter was designed for use in procedures requiring active venting, such as gastroenterology cases. This specially designed catheter features decreased time to frost by 50%, minimizing overall ablation time.

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The Rapid AV™ catheter was designed for the delivery of spray cryotherapy treatment for Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal cancer – utilizing an active venting method.

Comparison between Barretts and Cancer cell death temps

Examples of additional benign and malignant applications include:

  • Hemostasis
  • Stricture Management
  • Stent overgrowth/ingrowth
  • Radiation proctitis
  • Dysphagia
  • Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia (GAVE)
  • Diseases of the high cardia

The Rapid AV™ Catheter Technology

The Rapid AV™ catheter is primarily used in gastrointestinal (GI) procedures that require active venting to ablate benign disease and malignancies such as esophageal cancer. The catheter is specially designed to deliver cold liquid nitrogen at -196oC to cause a fast freeze and allow for a slow thaw of the tissue. This fast freeze and slow thaw cycle effectively kills tissue by causing instant and delayed cell death for a more effective treatment of diseased cells of the tissue.

Benefits of the Rapid AV™ Catheter

  • 50% reduction in overall ablation time - The Rapid AV™ catheter is designed to decrease time to frost by 50%.
  • Treats benign and malignant lesions - truFreeze is the only device indicated to ablate Barrett's Esophagus with high grade dysplasia and/or low grade dysplasia and malignancies.
  • Rejuvenative healing response - Liquid nitrogen spray cryotherapy promotes a rejuvenative healing response due to low scarring compared to traditional heat-based ablation therapies.

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Browse a complete Item Number list and easily reorder Active Venting Solutions – Rapid AV™ Catheter products on Shop STERIS.

Product Name Included Product Number  
RapidAV™ Spray Catheter Kit
  • Straight Spray Catheter
  • Catheter introducer
  • 20 Fr CryoDecompression Tube (CDT)
  • Connector and suction tubing
2000177
Active Venting Cryo Decompression Tube (CDT)
  • 20 FR CDT
ACCCC3CDT05
Suction Canister
  • 800cc
  • Hi-Flow
8002055

The following videos may contain images from medical procedures. Due to this content, the video is age-restricted by YouTube and cannot be viewed directly on this page. In order to view select videos, please visit the STERIS Endoscopy YouTube channel and sign into your YouTube account.

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Spray Cryotherapy - The Technology - AFS 2020

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
Document # Document Title
ACTIVE VENTING IFU
BROCHURE
Document # Document Title
2022 NEW & FEATURED BROCHURE - US
CASE STUDY
Document # Document Title
ACTIVE VENTING CASE STUDY - HIGH GRADE DYSPLASIA 2TX
ACTIVE VENTING CASE STUDY - HIGH GRADE DYSPLASIA LTFU
ACTIVE VENTING CASE STUDY - HIGH GRADE DYSPLASIA AND INTRAMUCOSAL CARCINOMA
ACTIVE VENTING BIBLIOGRAPHY
QUICK START GUIDE
Document # Document Title
ACTIVE VENTING GUIDE
CATHETER GUIDE
FILLING THE TRUFREEZE CONSOLE - GUIDE
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