Stereotaxis (company)
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| AMEX: STXS | |
| Industry | Medical appliances and equipment |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | David L. Fischel (CEO) |
| Products | Niobe Es Magnetic Navigation System Genesis RMN System |
| Website | www |
Stereotaxis Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation based in St. Louis, Missouri, that makes robotic products to try to improve the clinical outcomes of electrophysiology studies.
Products
[edit]The Niobe Es Magnetic Navigation System includes two pods that use permanent magnets mounted on pivoting arms and positioned on opposing sides of the operating table.[1] The magnets are controlled by physicians from the outside using[2] a mouse, keyboard, joystick, and[3] a viewing screen. The rotation of the magnets within the Niobe pods influences the magnetic catheters in the heart to make micro movements of the catheter tip (in increments of 1 mm to 9 mm) to navigate throughout the four chambers of the heart.[4][5][1][6]
The RMN system was originally designed for applications within the brain; its current usage is guiding magnetic catheters during electrophysiology studies and catheter ablation procedures to treat arrhythmias in the heart.[7] It has been used in over 100,000 procedures worldwide as of 2017.[8] In January 2022, Stereotaxis announced that the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital became the first in central China to establish a robotic electrophysiology program with the product.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Niobe® system". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Navigant (M588020004500260)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Odyssey (M58800100701020)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Magnetic vs Manual Catheters". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Odyssey® solution". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ Yuan, Shiwen; Holmqvist, Fredrik; Kongstad, Ole; Jensen, Steen M.; Wang, Lingwei; Ljungström, Erik; Hertervig, Eva; Borgquist, Rasmus (November 2, 2017). "Long-term outcomes of the current remote magnetic catheter navigation technique for ablation of atrial fibrillation". Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal. 51 (6): 308–315. doi:10.1080/14017431.2017.1384566. ISSN 1401-7431. PMID 28958165. S2CID 25501499.
- ^ "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Niobe MNS Philips (M58800100610010)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Stereotaxis' (STXS) CEO David Fischel on Q1 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript". www.msn.com. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- ^ "Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital Adopts Stereotaxis Robotic Magnetic Navigation Technology". Surgical Robotics Technology. January 28, 2022. Retrieved January 31, 2022.