First Human Use Of New Device To Make Arrhythmia Treatment Safer

Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 22:28 in Health & Medicine

The first person in the world has been successfully treated with a new device designed to make it safer and easier for heart specialists to create a hole in the cardiac atrial septum. The hole, created by the NRGTM Transseptal Needle, allows cardiac catheters to cross from the right side of the heart to the left side.

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