Northwestern Medicine First in U.S. to Use Live 3D Intracardiac Echo for EP Procedure

"Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute recently became the first cardiovascular program in the United States to use a new real-time, 3-D intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) imaging device for patients with heart rhythm disorders.
The new Philips Healthcare VeriSight Pro ICE catheter offers superior 2-D and 3-D live image guidance for a wide range of procedures in structural heart disease and electrophysiology (EP), allowing interventionalists to navigate procedures. The technology can also help physicians perform procedures without putting patients under general anesthesia and reduce the need for ionizing radiation from X-ray angiography imaging systems where have been the imaging standard in cath and EP labs.
Bradley P. Knight, M.D., medical director of cardiac electrophysiology and director of the Heart Rhythm Center at Northwestern Medicine was the first to use the new VeriSight Pro ICE catheter during a cryo-ablation procedure to treat a heart arrhythmia. Knight worked with Philips during the development of the device. While 2-D ICE has been available for years, the new system allows real-time, 3-D imaging inside the heart, which is much easier to interpret and is easier to use when guiding devices inside the heart..." Lire la suite