---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 870.1330"
title: "21"
number: "870.1330"
heading: "Catheter guide wire."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/870.1330"
---

# §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](/cfr/21/part807-subpartE.md) of this chapter subject to the limitations in [§ 870.9](/cfr/21/870.9.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 7907, Feb. 5, 1980, as amended at 84 FR 71811, Dec. 30, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l, 371.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 7907, Feb. 5, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 7907, Feb. 5, 1980, as amended at 84 FR 71811, Dec. 30, 2019]