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This review evaluates the emerging role, published data, and potential applications of the SmartTouch contact force technology for improving safe and effective lesion delivery in catheter ablation.
This review evaluates the role, published data, and potential applications of contact force technology, specifically the SmartTouch catheter, for improving safe and effective lesion delivery during complex catheter ablation.
Contact force sensing may aid ablation lesion delivery; leaves open need for randomized trials before practice change.
Novel technologies have been developed recently to assess contact between the ablation catheter and the underlying tissue in an attempt to improve safe and effective lesion delivery. The most recently developed technology is the SmartTouch™ catheter which is an open irrigated-tip catheter integrated within the CARTO 3 3D mapping system. In this review we consider the role of contact force technology, evaluate the published data and discuss the potential applications of this novel technology.
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Page et al. (2012) conducted a review in Complex Catheter Ablation. SmartTouch™ catheter was evaluated. This review evaluates the emerging role, published data, and potential applications of the SmartTouch contact force technology for improving safe and effective lesion delivery in catheter ablation.
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