"We are very excited to provide such a comprehensive system for our patients and staff," said Dr. Jeffrey Olgin, associate professor of Medicine and chief of Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. "The ceiling-mounted system reduces the footprint in the lab and allows the possibility of using both interventional cardiology and electrophysiology procedures. Another important benefit of this system is increased patient accessibility during the procedures, which improves the work environment of patient and staff."Improving patient care by simplifying lab operations and reducing exposure to X-ray radiation.

An added value of the magnetic device navigation in the combined Philips and Stereotaxis interventional environment also helps reduce X-ray exposure the patient. Wood et al, Circulation supplement, 2006; Lindsay et al, Heart Rhythm supplement, 2006). Control of the Niobe system is handled in an adjacent room, meaning that physicians are not exposed to X-ray radiation and are able to work without wearing heavy lead aprons that can cause back injuries. "Philips' dedicated EP business program is committed to improving the lab environment, enabling new, more complex procedures and integrating the EP workflow process across the complete patient care cycle," said Ronald Tabaksblat, vice president, electrophysiology, for Philips Medical Systems. "Our continued partnership with Stereotaxis illustrates our strategy of collaborating with best-in-class vendors to develop complete EP product offerings. The new magnetic navigation technology is a result of this effort and promotes our vision of leading the EP market through better, more enhanced patient care and treatment solutions." In addition to the magnetic navigation solution, Philips breakthrough family of EP solutions can be integrated with EPMedSystems' EP-Workmate® computerized recording system, enabling display of EP-Workmate arrhythmia data on Allura monitors, sharing patient data between the two systems, and controlling some of EP-Workmate's key functionalities from the Allura tableside touch screen module. All these functions facilitate a more efficient use of the EP lab by allowing physicians to concentrate on their patients.


The Philips EP solutions also provide low EP X-ray dose settings, which are achieved through the MRC X-ray tube with DoseWise-a portfolio of technologies delivering significant dose reduction of X-ray to patient. This complete solution provides an excellent system to treat complex EP arrhythmias, tortuous coronary artery navigations and cardiac resynchronization therapy procedures. Although the integrated system represents the state-of-the-art and most powerful tools for therapeutic electrophysiology procedures for those diagnostic applications where magnetic navigation may not be needed, the Allura Xper FD10 provides the most advanced and full featured fluoroscopy system available.

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