Cardiac Electrophysiology Goes Robotic and 3D with CoHesion™

Hansen Medical of Mountain View, California just received FDA approval to market the company's new CoHesion visualization module for complex electrophysiology (EP) mapping procedures, a technology that bridges St Jude's 3D visualization guidance system EnSite™ with Hansen's 3D robotic navigation system Sensei™. We first reported about Sensei™ robotic system back in January 2007. This integrated EP solution offers a software interface between the Hansen Medical Sensei(TM) Robotic Catheter system and the EnSite(TM) System advanced mapping software from St. Jude Medical, Inc. Hansen Medical's platform solution offers physicians the ability to instinctively navigate a catheter during the diagnostic phase of a complex cardiac arrhythmia procedure. The new CoHesion module imports the EnSite System's 3D cardiac chamber model with... [read full story]