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Resolute Baptist Hospital receives new technology to help treat heart issues
treated, doctors have to put catheters up into the patient’s leg to their heart, Bailey said. The OPAL HDx Mapping System works with the FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System and the FARAWAVE NAV Ablation Catheter to streamline the procedures by combining mapping and abla- tion. Ablation is a procedure that uses extreme heat or cold to destroy disease or unwanted tissue. The FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System and the FARAWAVE NAV Ablation Catheter tech- nology creates nonthermal heat when delivering energy, which does not create thermal damage, unlike radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation pro- cedures—which could collaterally damage nerves or the esophagus due to thin walls in the heart. Radiofrequency ablation is a procedure that burns parts of the heart, and cryoablation is a procedure that freezes parts of the heart, Bailey said.
Doctors at Resolute Baptist Hospital in New Braunfels have begun using a new piece of tech- nology to help treat cardiac issues, such as atrial brillation. Atrial brillation is a rhythm disorder where the upper chamber of the heart is beating rapidly and not contracting, which increases an individual’s risk of stroke, Dr. Shane Bailey said. Bailey is a doctor at Resolute Baptist Hospital who specializes in cardiac electrophysiology, cardiology and internal medicine. Key information The OPAL HDx Mapping System is an advanced 3D mapping system used to help physicians understand where catheters are inside a patient who decides to get treated for atrial brillation. When someone with atrial brillation decides to get
The OPAL system came out in late 2024. Resolute Baptist Hospital began using the technology earlier this year.
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“For decades we’ve always been worried about, ‘Are we [going to] damage the nerves?’ ‘Are we [going to] damage the esophagus?’ Now with this technology we don’t have to worry about that,” he said.
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