Healthcare Professionals
The AccuFle Fiber combines a Black Hole™ SMA Connector with a specialized fiber construction that is designed to improve performance and flexibility while reducing scope and laser console damage. The AccuFlex Fiber also features a laser-polished distal output tip designed to prevent energy loss as the laser energy leaves the fiber.
- Efficient Energy Transmission: An independent study demonstrated that the AccuFlex 200 Fiber delivered up to 63% more energy than the ACM/Dornier 200 Brand Fiber at the same power settings.1
- Flexibility: The construction of the AccuFlex Single Use Laser Fiber offers a high degree of flexibility compared to other fibers. In an independent study the accuflex 200 Micron Fiber was shown to deflect up to 272 degrees in a USA Series™ DUR™-8 Elite ureteroscope.1
- Variety of Sizes: The AccuFlex Fiber is offered in a wide variety of sizes to meet the needs of different surgical situations. The smaller AccuFlex Fiber sizes are designed for use during flexible ureteroscopy, offering a high degree of flexibility and visibility. The larger sizes are well suited for semi-rigid ureteroscopy, cystoscopy and percutaneous applications. The AccuFlex 150 Fiber is the smallest core urology fiber available today.
- Laser Polished Output Tip: Conventional, mechanically cleaved fiber tips absorb energy in the tip’s imperfections, resulting in fiber “burn back” where the glass of the tip deteriorates throughout the procedure. This tip deterioration can result in loss of energy delivery of up to 30%.2 The laser-polished tip of the AccuFlex Fiber is designed to offer efficient energy transmission and may reduce fiber deterioration. Because the AccuFlex Fiber is single-use, every case starts with a new laser –polished tip for optimum performance.
- Designed to Minimize Scope Damage: Damage to your flexible ureteroscope can be a costly and frustrating outcome of using inferior laser fibers. The AccuFlex Fiber is designed to minimize the risk of scope damage caused by thermal breakdown of fibers during use. Independent tests also observed that the ACMI/Dornier 200 Micron Fibers “fractured repeatedly at a bend diameter of 2cm” and concluded that “for small fibers”, the Dornier Fiber has the lowest threshold for fracturing and is most likely to damage a flexible ureteroscope.”3
Additional Resources
1Source: Comparison of Seven Holmium:YAG Laser Optical Fibers by Bodo Knudsen et al, presented at 2003 AUA.
2Source: Effect of Lithotripsy on Holmium:YAG Optical Bearn Profile, Lee et al, Journal of Endourology, Volume 17, Number 2, March 2003.
3Source: “Performance and Safety of Holmium:YAG laser Optical Fibers” by Bodo E. Knudsen et al, Journal of Urology, Vol. 171, No. 4, Supplement of Tuesday, May 11, 2004, Page 442, Abstract No. 1671
USA Series DUR-8 Elite is a trademark of ACMI Corporation
Black Hole is a trademark of InnovaQuartz
