Similar Devices
- Hansen Medical offers the Sensei robotic catheter system, a device utilizing a system of pulleys to steer sheaths which guide catheters.
- Corindus Vascular Robotics, Waltham MA, has developed a vascular robotic system initially targeted at PCI procedures in the cath lab. Remote navigation is attractive since it removes the physician from the radiation used to monitor the catheter's progress.
A different track in the development of medical devices for ablation is to make the procedure easier to perform by development of catheters that make the lesions around each pulmonary vein in one operation. Another benefit is that no expensive imaging system is needed. Examples are:
- Ablation Frontiers Pulmonary Vein Catheter
- Bard HD Mesh Ablator Catheter
- CryoCath Arctic Front
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