Features
nContact Enables a Complete,
Comprehensive, Multi-Disciplinary Procedure
Potential Advantages of the Convergent Procedure:
- Viable treatment alternative for all AF patients.
- Avoids chest incisions and ports, lung deflation and heart dissections which are all associated with long painful recoveries.
- Allows SUBTLE™ (sub-thoracic, total endoscopic) access to the posterior of the heart, critical to creating comprehensive lesion patterns.
- Ease reduces total combined Epi/Endo procedure time to approximately 3 hours.
- Epicardial ablation directs energy into the heart and the natural heat sink of the circulating blood.
- Minimizing endocardial ablation reduces the potential for collateral tissue damage.
- The procedure offers checks and balances as the multi-disciplinary procedure, represents individual approaches that complement each other. With the combined approach all endocardial and epicardial regions can be accessed and ablated. Most importantly, sophisticated EP intra-operative diagnostics can check to assure lesion completion, pattern connection and prove electrical isolation that predict patient outcomes.