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* The open-platform feature of the EnSite Precision™ cardiac mapping system allows for use of almost any catheter, thus offering superior flexibility as compared to the CARTO‡ system by Biosense Webster, which limits use to Biosense Webster catheters only.
**In an independent head-to-head bench test comparison with the ThermoCool‡ SmartTouch‡ SF catheter, TactiCath Quartz™ contact force ablation catheter showed higher accuracy in both axial (perpendicular) and parallel (lateral) orientations.13
***FlexAbility™ ablation catheter, Sensor Enabled™, uses the same flexible tip as the FlexAbility™ ablation catheter, which has demonstrated equivalent performance in bench and pre-clinical testing to the tip used in Therapy™ Cool Flex™ ablation catheter.
**** The TactiCath™ contact force ablation catheter, Sensor Enabled™ is an update to the TactiCath™ contact force catheter family using the FlexAbility™ catheter family platform handle and shaft and a tip and force sensor derived from the TactiCath™ Quartz catheter. TactiCath™ and TactiCath™ Quartz contact force ablation catheter clinical data are applicable to the TactiCath™ ablation catheter, Sensor Enabled as mechanical/function testing and preclinical studies have demonstrated equivalent performance and safety profile. See St. Jude Medical, data on file, Report 90195941.
† Effortless is based on comparison of the TactiCath™ contact force ablation catheter, Sensor Enabled™ to the TactiCath™ contact force ablation catheter from physician feedback on catheter handling performance between the two catheters during preclinical and bench testing comparing the two catheters with respect to torque response and actuation force.
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