In traditional cardiac ablation procedures, a physician manually manipulates a catheter by hand to treat the heart. Controlling a catheter tip by holding onto the opposite end isn’t easy. The challenge could be compared to writing your name while holding a pencil by its eraser.
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Ablation Can Be Challenging
Robotics Transforms Ablation
Robotic Magnetic Navigation (RMN) technology transforms catheter navigation using two robotically-controlled magnets next to the operating table. The physician controls the procedure from behind an intuitive computer interface to precisely steer the ablation catheter with a magnet embedded in its tip.
The benefits of RMN are well established, and documented in over 500 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
How effective is robotics?
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%
of reported data shows better or equivalent acute and long term procedure success vs traditional catheter ablation.1
Is it safe?
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reduction in major complication rates for robotic vs. traditional catheter ablation across all reported data.1
Can it reduce radiation?
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of reported data shows a significant reduction in x-ray usage.1 The average reduction is equivalent to about 235 fewer chest x-rays, compared to manual.2
Precise
Robotic control allows the ablation catheter to reach the exact points it needs to.
“With robotic cardiac ablation, I have a safer approach to patient care, with greater accuracy than the human hand.”
– Dr. Aseem Desai, Mission Hospital
Gentle
Your heart is delicate.
Robotic ablation catheters are soft and gentle.
“Use of soft catheter, which Stereotaxis innovative, robotic technology allows, carries lesser risk of complications when compared with other techniques.”
– Dr. Margot Vloka, St. Alphonsus
The Benefits of RMN are Not Theoretical
Precise
Robotic control allows the ablation catheter to reach the exact points it needs to.
“With robotic cardiac ablation, I have a safer approach to patient care, with greater accuracy than the human hand.”
– Dr. Aseem Desai, Mission Hospital
Gentle
Your heart is delicate. Robotic ablation catheters are soft and gentle.
“Use of soft catheter, which Stereotaxis innovative, robotic technology allows, carries lesser risk of complications when compared with other techniques.”
– Dr. Margot Vloka, St. Alphonsus
Learn more about Safety & Efficacy
The benefits of RMN are well established, and documented in over 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
How effective is robotics?
0
%
of reported data shows better or equivalent acute and long term procedure success vs traditional catheter ablation.1
Is it safe?
0
%
reduction in major complication rates for robotic vs. traditional catheter ablation across all reported data.1
Can it reduce radiation?
0
%
of reported data shows a significant reduction in x-ray usage.1 The average reduction is equivalent to about 235 fewer chest x-rays, compared to manual.2
Resources
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) describes when the muscle fibers in the atrium, the upper chambers of the heart, are all contracting at different times. The end result is a quivering or twitching movement. Symptoms of AFib include general fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, weakness, and palpitations.
Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC)
The heart has two lower chambers called the ventricles. Premature ventricular contraction is when the ventricles contract earlier than normal in the cardiac cycle. This happens because an abnormal contraction signal, called a depolarization, originates from somewhere in the ventricles rather than coming from the pacemaker cells.
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular refers to the bottom chambers of the heart, the ventricles. Tachycardia indicates a fast heart rate. Ventricular Tachycardia is a series of abnormal heart beats where the electrical signal that generates the beat starts in the ventricles instead of the atria.
Atrial Flutter
Atrial flutter is used to describe when the atria contract at very high rates, between 300 and 400 beats per minute. Why is it called a flutter? The reason for this is that there is a wave of muscle contraction that flows through the atria that looks a little like it’s flapping or fluttering.
Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia (AVRT) and Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT)
The atria are the hearts upper chambers and the ventricles are the the lower chambers. These two terms are the root of the word Atrioventricular. Reentrant Tachycardias are fast heart rates caused by electrical signals that loop back on themselves.
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) describes when the muscle fibers in the atrium, the upper chambers of the heart, are all contracting at different times. The end result is a quivering or twitching movement. Symptoms of AFib include general fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, weakness, and palpitations.
Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC)
The heart has two lower chambers called the ventricles. Premature ventricular contraction is when the ventricles contract earlier than normal in the cardiac cycle. This happens because an abnormal contraction signal, called a depolarization, originates from somewhere in the ventricles rather than coming from the pacemaker cells.
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular refers to the bottom chambers of the heart, the ventricles. Tachycardia indicates a fast heart rate. Ventricular Tachycardia is a series of abnormal heart beats where the electrical signal that generates the beat starts in the ventricles instead of the atria.
Atrial Flutter
Atrial flutter is used to describe when the atria contract at very high rates, between 300 and 400 beats per minute. Why is it called a flutter? The reason for this is that there is a wave of muscle contraction that flows through the atria that looks a little like it’s flapping or fluttering.
Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia (AVRT) & Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT)
The atria are the hearts upper chambers and the ventricles are the the lower chambers. These two terms are the root of the word Atrioventricular. Reentrant Tachycardias are fast heart rates caused by electrical signals that loop back on themselves.
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) describes when the muscle fibers in the atrium, the upper chambers of the heart, are all contracting at different times. The end result is a quivering or twitching movement. Symptoms of AFib include general fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath, weakness, and palpitations.
Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC)
The heart has two lower chambers called the ventricles. Premature ventricular contraction is when the ventricles contract earlier than normal in the cardiac cycle. This happens because an abnormal contraction signal, called a depolarization, originates from somewhere in the ventricles rather than coming from the pacemaker cells.
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular refers to the bottom chambers of the heart, the ventricles. Tachycardia indicates a fast heart rate. Ventricular Tachycardia is a series of abnormal heart beats where the electrical signal that generates the beat starts in the ventricles instead of the atria.
Atrial Flutter
Atrial flutter is used to describe when the atria contract at very high rates, between 300 and 400 beats per minute. Why is it called a flutter? The reason for this is that there is a wave of muscle contraction that flows through the atria that looks a little like it’s flapping or fluttering.
Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardia (AVRT) & Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT)
The atria are the hearts upper chambers and the ventricles are the the lower chambers. These two terms are the root of the word Atrioventricular. Reentrant Tachycardias are fast heart rates caused by electrical signals that loop back on themselves.
References & Intended Uses
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- Link to study
- The hospital locator directory provides contact information for hospitals that treat cardiac arrhythmias using Stereotaxis’ Niobe RMN system. Stereotaxis does not charge any healthcare provider to be included in this directory, nor does Stereotaxis verify the accuracy of any information provided by physicians included in this hospital locator directory. Stereotaxis does not endorse or recommend any individual physician, practice or healthcare facility. Ask your healthcare provider what is right for you. Only a licensed healthcare provider should diagnose cardiac arrhythmias and recommend treatment options.
Stereotaxis Intended Use Statements, United States Labeling:
The Genesis RMN® and Niobe® ES Systems are intended to navigate compatible magnetic devices through tissue to designated target sites in the right and left heart, coronary vasculature, neurovasculature, and peripheral vasculature by orienting the device tip in a desired direction. The Cardiodrive® Catheter Advancement System (CAS) is intended to automatically advance and retract compatible magnetic electrophysiology (EP) mapping and ablation catheters inside a patient’s heart when used in conjunction with a Stereotaxis magnetic navigation system. The Cardiodrive System is not intended to advance the EP mapping and ablation catheters through the coronary vasculature or the coronary sinus.
Consult the associated product labeling for the Indications for Use and instructions of other devices used in conjunction with Stereotaxis products.
Cardiodrive and Niobe are trademarks of Stereotaxis, Inc., registered in the United States, the European Community, and Japan. Genesis RMN is a trademark of Stereotaxis, Inc., registered in the United States.