St. Peter’s Hospital, an affiliate of St. Peter’s Health Partners, is advancing cardiac care with the utilization of Boston Scientific’s FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System.
The catheter-based system uses electrical pulses to treat atrial fibrillation, or AFib. St. Peter’s Hospital is the first hospital in the Capital Region to offer the treatment, which has proven to significantly reduce or eliminate episodes of AFib.
Dr. Robert Phang, director of St. Peter’s electrophysiology laboratory, explained how FARAPULSE works during an interview with WTEN/News10.
From the story:
Dr. Phang showed NEWS10 Boston Scientific’s Farapulse system. “The high voltage energy from the pulse field makes little holes in the cell tissue of left atrium to destroy it,” Dr. Phang explained. “This technology is tremendously safe.”
For years, as Dr. Phang, explained the field used thermal heat to destroy tissue in order to treat AFib. “The big difference is it is high voltage energy delivered through the tip of a catheter.”
The end piece is flexible and can switch its shape between a basket-like structure or something resembling a flat flower, which makes it easier for Dr. Phang to get to the parts of the heart that need help with blocking abnormal signals.
“The catheter has to be making good contact with left atrium to make good ablation legions,” he added.
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