In Brief: Cardiac Pathways
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Cardiac Pathways: Arrhythmia Mapping System multiple-electrode catheter is used for the first time on a patient in The Netherlands. The system identified "three different sites responsible for ventricular tachycardias within 73 seconds, compared to three to four hours required by single-point mapping catheters," the company says. The 64-electrode basket catheter, used in conjunction with the company's Cooled Ablation radiofrequency catheter, is "introduced in a collapsed state...to enable its traverse through the arteries" to the left ventricle, where it is "fully deployed" using eight "arms" to map the entire ventricle "within several heartbeats." Cardiac Pathways submitted an investigational device exemption application for the system to FDA in September...