SLIDE 23
(Nancy Pratt)

Here you see an image of the endoscope going up - we were going up now through the catheter. This is the opening of the catheter near the vagina. The next thing was to pass a guide wire. This little wire is five meters long and sterile and flexible. So it was a big challenge to keep it sterile as it was passed through one of the channels of the endoscope up into the vagina. You'll see what the guide wire does in a minute.

So here we are passing the guide wire in through the endoscope which is in the catheter. This is the very tip of the guide wire - it has a yellow rubber cap on it, and this is that opening of the vagina. And here you can see the guide wire penetrating that opening.