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/ PART 870 - CARDIOVASCULAR DEVICES
/ Subpart B - Cardiovascular Diagnostic Devices / § 870.1330 Catheter guide wire.
§ 870.1330 Catheter guide wire.
(a) Identification. A catheter guide wire is a coiled wire that is designed to fit inside a percutaneous catheter for the purpose of directing the catheter through a blood vessel.
(b) Classification. Class II (special controls). The device, when it is a torque device that is manually operated, non-patient contacting, and intended to manipulate non-cerebral vascular guide wires, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 870.9.