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Brigham & Women's Hospital
Report provides guidelines for adjusting power delivery for cooled RF ablation.
January 9th, 2005
A recent report described optimizing radio frequency (RF) output for cooled RF ablation. According to the report from the United States, "Cooled RF ablation catheters increase lesion size and facilitate ablation compared to standard RF ablation catheters. Cooling the ablation electrode increases the disparity between tissue temperature and electrode temperature, making use of temperature for guiding power application during ablation of less certain value." W.G. Stevenson and colleagues of Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston continued, "Appropriate energy titration is important, however, to produce large lesions, while avoiding overheating of tissue...
Source: Aging & Elder Health Week (2005-01-09)
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