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 ) • Combines the best features of the Cervex-Brush and EndoCervex Brush ®-S • One Device for Sample Collection in all patients • Requires 2 full turns in Clockwise Direction Rovers Medical Devices has engineered a new Pap smear collection device which combines the important features of the original Cervex-Brush® with the benefits of the EndoCervex-Brush®. The convenient Cervex-Brush®-Combi provides doctors and nurses the option of a simultaneous Pap smear collection with a single device insertion. The Cervex-Brush®-Combi will collect both ectocervical and endocervical cells from patients. The Cervex-Brush®-Combi a new patented, high tech product capable of delivering higher cellular yield of endocervical cells than the traditional Cervex-Brush. Laboratory tests have also indicated presence of oncogenic HPV type cells which will encourage other applications for the Cerex-Brush Combi. The Cervex-Brush® Combi was developed for two main reasons. For current users of the Cervex-Brush a perfect smear can be made in the majority of the cases and if the instructions for use are followed properly. In a small percentage of cases (stenotic os or narrow entry of the endocervical canal) sometimes a more rigid endocervical sample is needed (see EndoCervex-Brush®) In addition, there are a small number of practitioners that have trouble with the right application of the Cervex-Brush® (insert central hairs into the endocervical canal and make 5 full turns in a clockwise direction). Sometimes they use the Cervex-Brush® in the same way they used the spatula resulting in unsatisfactory smears due to a lack of endocervical cells. With proper use of the Cervex-Brush® Combi, practitioners will only have to rotate the brush two full turns. The device only differs from the Cervex-Brush® in that the 9 longer middle hairs have been replaced by a complete endocervical sampler. This makes the device the ideal Pap smear collection instrument since it is now possible to smear almost 100% of the patients while simultaneously the middle part of the device is collecting endocervical material. Initial studies with the Cervex-Brush® Combi resulted in favorable collection efficiencies with a statistically significant higher yield of endocervical cells. |
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