Goniotome +I/A Handpiece - The Handpiece is a sterile single use ophthalmic knife. It consists of a pencil-like instrument with a graspable white ABS plastic outer shell (~1.5 cm diameter and ~13 cm length), a stainless steel probe (protruding about 2.2 cm from the tip of the white outer shell and covered by a protective purge chamber), irrigation and aspiration tubing extruded from DEHP-free PVC (~15 cm length) terminated with polycarbonate luer connectors. The diameter of the probe insertable into the eye is ~1.1 mm. The tip of the probe features a pointed footplate tip and dual sharpened edges fabricated of stainless steel.The Handpiece is intended to be used in ophthalmic surgery to manually cut Trabecular Meshwork (TM) in adult and infantile patients.The Handpiece can be connected to a suitable ophthalmic Irrigation/Aspiration (I/A) system to provide irrigation and aspiration of balanced salt solution (BSS) while the procedure is being performed.
2019-07-17