Dr. Smeds, what about this study to you that you picked out for this month's spotlight?

Well, you know, this is honestly one of the coolest papers that I've read in the last couple of months.

And the paper immediately grabbed my attention because it isn't simply improving an existing tool.

It reimagines how we navigate inside blood vessels.

Every surgeon who performs fenestrated or branched endovascular repair knows that target vessel cannulation is often the rate-limiting and most frustrating part of the procedure.

Seeing the authors accomplish all four cannulations in their model using a magnetically steerable guide wire without the usual collection of steerable sheaths and support catheters made me stop and think about where this technology may eventually lead.

What excites me the most isn't necessarily this specific prototype, it's the platform itself.

Dr. Spence, any comments, any questions from you?