St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center said this week that it became the first facility in the United States to implant a new heart-pacing technology that delivers electrical pulses to multiple locations within the left side of the heart to resynchronize contraction of the heart’s lower chambers.
The technology also may improve a heart failure patient’s response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by increasing the amount of cardiac tissue being stimulated at one time and may reduce the need for costly and invasive procedures to readjust placement of the thin wires, called leads, around the heart, St. Francis said in a news release.
The new MultiPoint Pacing technology, from medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical, is featured on the Quadra Assura MP cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator or Quadra Allure MP CRT-pacemaker.
Dr. Neal Lippman, an electrophysiologist with Arrhythmia Consultants of Connecticut at St. Francis, performed the procedure with the new technology on March 30.
