Use of a contact force-sensing ablation catheter with advanced catheter location significantly reduces fluoroscopy time and radiation dose in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 211-218

  Lee, Geoffrey ^a,b   Hunter, Ross J ^a   Lovell, Matthew J ^a   Finlay, Malcom ^a   Ullah, Waqas ^a   Baker, Victoria ^a   Dhinoja, Mehul B ^a   Sporton, Simon ^a   Earley, Mark J ^a   Schilling, Richard J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Contact force; Fluoroscopy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CARDIAC PATIENT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FORCE SENSING ABLATION CATHETER; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETER; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84960381118     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv186     Document Type: Article

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