TubaClean® – Probing and flushing catheter for the Tuba Eustachii
The TubaClean® catheter was developed to probe and flush the Eustachian Tube in the course of middle ear surgery.
The catheter can be used during various surgical interventions at the middle ear (tympanoplasty I to III or tympanoscopy) to probe the Eustachian Tube via tympanal side for blockages or to flush it with a sterile liquid.
Chronic ventilation problems may result in retraction, cholesteatoma, or not-healing eardrum defects. Particularly in children, tympanic effusion, often with a mucous discharge (so-called “glue ear“), may also occur. As many users of balloon dilation have described, such viscous secretion is frequently found within the Tuba Eustachii as well. In analogy, this is referred to using the term “glue tube“.
Prof. Dr. med. Götz Lehnerdt,
Head Physician of the ENT Clinic,
St. Anna Clinic, Wuppertal, Germany
This catheter gives us surgeons an option for probing and flushing the Tuba Eustachii in an atraumatic way from the middle ear during surgery.
The probing and flushing catheter in use:
Features
Catheter application
Art. No. 10-512-15
