K233858 · Trisalus Life Sciences · DQY · Dec 27, 2023 · Cardiovascular
Device Facts
Record ID
K233858
Device Name
TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter
Applicant
Trisalus Life Sciences
Product Code
DQY · Cardiovascular
Decision Date
Dec 27, 2023
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 870.1250
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
3rd-Party Reviewed
Indications for Use
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is designed to provide a pathway through which therapeutic devices are introduced. The TriSalus TriGuideTM is intended to be used in the peripheral vascular system.
Device Story
TriSalus TriGuide Guiding Catheter is a single-lumen, braided, fixed-length 5F catheter; features soft distal tip, proximal Luer-Lock hub, and strain relief. Device provides patent pathway for compatible accessories (guide wires, infusion syringes, hemostatic valves) in peripheral vascular system. Used by clinicians during interventional procedures; facilitates navigation and positioning of therapeutic devices. Three pre-shaped tip designs (Axis, Sim 1, Cobra) accommodate various peripheral anatomies. Radiopaque barium sulfate in Pebax jacket allows fluoroscopic visualization. Single-patient use; EtO sterilized.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing and simulated clinical use in a porcine model. Bench testing verified pull strength, torque resistance, burst pressure, hub aspiration, shape retention, and packaging integrity. High-pressure injection/leak testing was enhanced compared to the predicate. No human clinical data provided.
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December 27, 2023
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TriSalus Life Sciences % Prithul Bom Most Responsible Person Regulatory Technology Services, LLC 1000 Westgate Drive. Suite 510k Saint Paul, Minnesota 55114
Re: K233858
Trade/Device Name: TriSalus TriGuide™ Guiding Catheter Regulation Number: 21 CFR 870.1250 Regulation Name: Percutaneous catheter Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: DQY Dated: December 5, 2023 Received: December 5, 2023
Dear Prithul Bom:
We have reviewed your section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. Although this letter refers to your product as a device, please be aware that some cleared products may instead be combination products. The 510(k) Premarket Notification Database available at https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm identifies combination product submissions. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Also, please note the regulation entitled, "Misbranding by reference to premarket notification" (21 CFR 807.97). For questions regarding the reporting of adverse events under the MDR regulation (21 CFR Part 803), please go to https://www.fda.gov/medical-device-safety/medical-device-reportingmdr-how-report-medical-device-problems.
For comprehensive regulatory information about medical devices and radiation-emitting products, including information about labeling regulations, please see Device Advice (https://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/device-advice-comprehensive-regulatory-assistance) and CDRH Learn (https://www.fda.gov/training-and-continuing-education/cdrh-learn). Additionally, you may contact the Division of Industry and Consumer Education (DICE) to ask a question about a specific regulatory topic. See the DICE website (https://www.fda.gov/medical-device-advice-comprehensive-regulatoryassistance/contact-us-division-industry-and-consumer-education-dice) for more information or contact DICE by email (DICE@fda.hhs.gov) or phone (1-800-638-2041 or 301-796-7100).
Sincerely,
# Samuel G. Raben -S
for Lydia Glaw Assistant Director DHT2C: Division of Coronary and Peripheral Intervention Devices OHT2: Office of Cardiovascular Devices Office of Product Evaluation and Quality Center for Devices and Radiological Health
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## Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K233858
Device Name TriSalus TriGuide Guiding Catheter
Indications for Use (Describe)
The TriSalus TriGuide Guiding Catheter is designed to provide a pathway through which therapeutic devices are introduced. The TriSalus TriGuide is intended to be used in the peripheral vascular system.
Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable)
| Prescription Use (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D) | <span style="font-size: 20px;">☑</span> |
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| Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C) | <span style="font-size: 20px;">☐</span> |
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| 510(k) #: | K233858 | 510(k) Summary | Prepared on: 2023-11-22 |
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| Contact Details | | 21 CFR 807.92(a)(1) |
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| Applicant Name | TriSalus Life Sciences | |
| Applicant Address | 6272 W. 91st Ave Westminster Co 80 United States | |
| Applicant Contact Telephone | 3032434969 | |
| Applicant Contact | Mr. Michael Aymami | |
| Applicant Contact Email | michael.aymami@trisaluslifesci.com | |
| Device Name | | 21 CFR 807.92(a)(2) |
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| Device Trade Name | TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter (TGC-48065-Axis TGC-48065-Sim1 TGC-48065-Cobra) | |
| Common Name | Percutaneous catheter | |
| Classification Name | Percutaneous Catheter | |
| Regulation Number | 870.1250 | |
| Product Code | DQY | |
| Legally Marketed Predicate Devices | 21 CFR 807.92(a)(3) |
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| Predicate # | Predicate Trade Name (Primary Predicate is listed first) | Product Code |
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| K140034 | Surefire Guiding Catheter | DQY |
| Device Description Summary | | 21 CFR 807.92(a)(4) |
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The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter provides a pathway to introduce and facilitate the advancement of devices into the peripheral vascular system. Its principle of operation is therefore to provide a patent pathway for compatible accessories as described within its labeling.
TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is a single-lumen, braided, fixed-length 5F catheter with a soft distal tip and a proximal Luer-Lock hub and strain relief. The TriSalus TriGuide Catheter has a three-layer construction, consisting of a PTFE inner liner, stainless steel braid mid-layer, and an extruded Pebax polymer outer shaft jacket. The Pebax extruded polymer is filled with barium suffate (BaSO4) as a radiopacifier, to provide visibility of the TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter under fluoroscopy.
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter are 65 cm in length in three pre-shaped tip designs including Axis, Sim 1, and Cobra to accommodate access and positioning in a range of peripheral vascular anatomies. The distal tip is rounded for atraumatic vessel tracking.
| Product Code | Tip | Overall Length | Usable Length | Tip Length | ID | OD |
|-----------------|-------|----------------|---------------|------------|--------|----|
| TGC-48065-AXIS | Axis | 75cm | 67cm | 4cm | 0.048" | 5F |
| TGC-48065-SIM1 | Sim1 | 75cm | 67cm | 6cm | 0.048" | 5F |
| TGC-48065-COBRA | Cobra | 75cm | 67cm | 7cm | 0.048" | 5F |
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is compatible with standard 0.038" OD guide wires, Luer-Lock infusion syringes, rotating hemostatic valves (RHV), and 5F catheter sheath introducers.
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Device Materials (All device shape variants) Outer Jackets (Direct Contact) = Pebax 4033 SA01 MED, Pebax 6333 SA01 MED, Pebax 7233 SA01 MED Braid (Indirect Contact) = 304 Stainless Steel Braid Cover (Indirect Contact) = Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) Liner (Direct Contact) = PTFE, Bismuth Trioxide, Black 26, Titanium Dioxide, <. 1% Proprietary Radiopacifiers (Direct Contact) = Barium Sulfate Colorants (Direct Contact) = Jack Colorant (Monarch Black-C), Jacket - Blue Colorant (Clariant 2945C), Strain Relief - White Colorant (Titanium Dioxide), Hub - White Colorant (Mevopur AI0M176004) Strain Relief(Indirect Contact) = Pebax 5533 SA01 MED, Pebax 6333 SA01 MED Hub (Indirect Contact) = Grilamid TR55LX
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheterile (EtO) for single-patient use. The device utilizes no lubricious coatings.
Device Contract type/duration: Contact with circulating blood with a limited duration of fewer than 24 hours (<24 hrs.)
Packaging Materials (All device shape variants)
Backer Card = HDPE Label (Pouch and Carton) = Transtherm 1C, S246 Adhesive, 40# Liner Pouch = CT coated Tyvek 1073B Instructions for Use = #50 Carton = . 024" SBS Shipper = 275LB Corrugated B/C Flute Closure Label = Transtherm 1C, S246 Adhesive, 40# Liner
All three device shape variants are packaged in the same manner. One device is loaded onto a backer card. The carded device is loaded into a prelabeled pouch which is then sealed. The pouched device is loaded into a carton with the IFU placed on the non-breathable portion of the pouch and the carton is labeled and sealed. Each carton contains one TriGuide device.
## Intended Use/Indications for Use
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is designed to provide a pathway through which therapeutic devices are introduced. The TriSalus TriGuideTM is intended to be used in the peripheral vascular system.
## Indications for Use Comparison
Indications of use for the proposed device are identical to the predicate device.
## Technological Comparison
SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE Predicate Device
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is substantially equivalent in indications for use, intended use, design, principles of operations, mechanical performance, and technological characteristics to the cleared predicate device.
Primary Predicate Device Name 510(k) & Surefire Guiding Catheter K140034
Substantial Equivalence Comparison A Substantial Equivalence Matrix comparing the features of the TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter with the predicate device is provided.
Classification The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is a Class II medical device identical to the the predicate.
Indications for Use
21 CFR 807.92(a)(5)
## 21 CFR 807 92(a)(5)
## 21 CFR 807.92(a)(6)
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The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter has identical indications as the predicate Surelire Guiding Catheter. Both devices are designed to provide a pathway through which therapeutic devices are introduced. The TriSalus TriGuide TM Guiding Catheter is intended to be used in the peripheral vascular system.
### Design
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is equivalent in design to the predicate devices are guiding catheters with atraumatic tips on the distal end.
Like the predicate device, the TriSuideTM Guiding Catheter employs a single lumen microcatheter design. The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter device preparation is equives no nequires no new or additional steps and is consistent with established standard catheter preparation techniques.
### Dimensions
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter has similar dimensions to the predicate device. Both devices are offered in 65 cm lengths across the three industry-standard tip shape variants of Axis, Sim 1, and Cobra. The inner diameters of both the TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter and its predicate are functional equivalent.
### Materials
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is constructed of materials similar to the predicate device. All materials are commonly used in the manufacture of commercially available intravascular catheters.
Both catheters have a PTFE inner liner steel reinforcing braid, and a Pebax outer jacket impregnated with equivalent colorants and barium sulfate as a radiopacifier.
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter employs the same hub material as the predicate device.
### Packaging, Labeling, Sterilization
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter and the predicate device are provided in identical packaging, sterilized by ethylene oxice, have the same EO residual limits and are labeled as single use only.
### Performance
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter has equivalent performance to the predicate device.
As demonstrated in the design verfication the TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter has been demonstrated to have equivalent to the predicate device with respect pull strenstance, torque resistance, burst pressure, hub aspiration, shape retention, pouch integrity, and pouch seal strength.
Simulated clinical use testing conducted in a porcine model further demonstrated that the TriSaideTM Guiding Catheter has equivalent performance to the predicate device.
### Conclusion
The TriSalus TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter is substantially equivalent to the predicate in intended use, design, technology, and principles of operation. Both animal and bench performance test data demonstrate that the TriGuideTM Guiding Catheter performance is equivalent to the predicate device and that any differences between the two devices do not raise of safety or effectiveness.
### Non-Clinical and/or Clinical Tests Summary & Conclusions 21 CFR 807.92(b)
Performance testing approach for the subject device was equivalent to the predicate, inclusive of both design verification (bench testing) and design validation (animal testing). Discrete test methods are further enumerated withing the aforementioned test protocols and their resultant reports.
All design verification acceptance criterical to the predicate with the exception of "High Pressure Injection & Leak" test method which was enhanced as described below:
High Pressure Injection & Leak
Predicate: 600psi static burst
Proposed: 600psi dynamic verification followed by 300kpa static burst for leak test
Incorporated power injection verification step prior to burst test
Justification/Rationale: Updated testing approach to better differentiate between static and dynamic requirements
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### Not Applicable
The enclosed test results demonstrate that the TriSuideTM Guiding Catheter meets the specified acceptance criteria and is substantially equivalent to its predicate without raising new questions regarding safety or efficacy.
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