Abbott has announced that its Advisor HD Grid Mapping Catheter, Sensor Enabled, landed CE Mark approval in Europe. The device is used to track down sources of difficult to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias in order to locate targets for therapeutic ablation procedures. It relies on both electrical impedance and magnetic sensing to map out the heart. The catheter connects to the company’s EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System, which displays the maps, and can be utilized to work within any chamber of the heart.
The 16 electrode array at the distal end of the catheter has an unconventional, slotted spoon-like shape that Abbott believes produces high quality, high density maps of the electrical activity within the heart. The firm claims that more standard circular or linear mapping catheters can have signal perturbations when rotated. Advisor HD Grid’s shape provides coverage in the horizontal and vertical planes at the same time, which should minimize signal problems.
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Via: Abbott…