Electrophysiologist Vedran Oruc, MD, and his team pose for a photo after performing the first ablation with Baptist Health Paducah’s new FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System.
Electrophysiologist Vedran Oruc, MD, and his team pose for a photo after performing the first ablation with Baptist Health Paducah’s new FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System.
Baptist Health Paducah is celebrating after becoming the first hospital in the region to use an innovative new device that treats intermittent atrial fibrillation, or an irregularly fast heart rate.
The new device is called the FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation System, the hospital said in a news release Tuesday. It’s a catheter device that uses electric fields during an ablation procedure to treat specific tissue areas around the heart that cause potentially life-threatening arrhythmia.
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