Tunable catheter
AssigneeCoreMap, Inc.
InventorPeter S. Spector
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Abstract
The present disclosure applies to methods of cardiac ablation that use catheters able to conform and adapt to the heart of a patient in the middle of surgery. The catheters comprise paddles at the distal ends that have an array of electrodes on at least one side. The durometer of the paddles can be changed through physical manipulation of wires attached to the paddles or through other means such as the material the paddles are made of. Electrodes on the paddle record cardiac signals and a computer analyzes these signals to determine where in the heart fibrillation is originating. The computer then outputs a site for ablation.
Claims9
A method for detecting cardiac fibrillation, the method comprising:
- recording, via electrodes on a catheter comprising paddles with tunable conformance, signals from a cardiac tissue surface;
- entering the signals into a computer having resident therein software capable of determining a locus of atrial fibrillation in the cardiac tissue;
- and causing the computer to output a site for ablation.
A catheter able to be tuned to conform to the cardiac tissue surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.