nContact atrial fibrillation study
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
nContact Surgical Inc. gains FDA investigational device exemption to evaluate combined surgical and catheter treatment of longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation. The study will assess nContact's Numeris AF guided coagulation systemwith VisiTrax in combination with St. Jude Medical's Therapy Cool Path ablation catheter. During the procedure, "a cardiac surgeon and an electrophysiologist work as a team to perform a closed-chest epicardial ablation and endocardial catheter-based ablation," nContact explains