Medical device innovation: VersaCross transseptal platform

Boston Scientific’s Baylis Medical

Baylis Medical VersaCross

Medical device innovation nominee: VersaCross transseptal platform [Image courtesy of Boston Scientific]

Baylis Medical’s VersaCross catheter is a left-heart access device that can be used as a guidewire, transseptal puncture device or an exchange rail for delivering therapy sheaths.

Toronto-based Baylis Medical, now a part of Boston Scientific, designed the VersaCross with an atraumatic radiofrequency tipped pigtail wire to achieve access and then serve as an exchange wire to reduce the number of exchanges through a procedure.

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