Breakthrough Advancement in Ablation Technology

INTRODUCTION The Estech COBRA FusionTM Ablation System was developed to provide superior epicardial ablation performance on the beating heart. Current ablation devices have significant limitations that prevent effective use in creating full-thickness (transmural) lesions. Bipolar ablation clamps are a widely accepted means to create transmural lesions of the left and right pulmonary veins (PVs). However, when bipolar clamps are used in an epicardial beating-heart approach, they cannot create linear lesions between the PVs. Due to their size and shape, bipolar clamps are also not particularly well suited for minimally invasive procedures, adding significant procedural complexity to yield only a limited lesion set.