The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano First in Texas to Implement Stereotaxis Odyssey Cinema Studio and Epoch Platforms

November 18, 2011

PLANO, TEXAS (November 18, 2011)—THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano has recently implemented the Odyssey™ Cinema Studio and the EpochTM platform to enhance interventional cardiology and electrophysiology services.

Stereotaxis Launches Odyssey Cinema™ Studio as the Industry's First Clinical Procedure Online Broadcast Platform

November 11, 2011

Stereotaxis Partners with NACCME's Cardiovascular Learning Network® to Deliver Live Broadcasts for Online Medical Education Stereotaxis, Inc. announced the launch of Odyssey Cinema™ Studio, an industry-first clinical procedure online broadcast platform providing a turn-key solution for hospitals to facilitate high definition remote physician collaboration and global medical education.

The Stereotaxis GentleTouch Magnetic Treatment System – Coming Soon to Aria Health

November 7, 2011

The Stereotaxis GentleTouch Magnetic Treatment System will allow Aria’s physicians to heal hearts more precisely and safely than before. This system’s innovative technology uses computer-controlled magnets – which are positioned outside the body – to programmatically steer catheters and guidewires throughout the delicate cardiovascular system.

Stereotaxis robotic system now available at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, CA.

November 7, 2011

The Stereotaxis Gentle Touch robotic system, a new technology available at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, now enables faster procedures to treat heart arrhythmias with less potential risk to the patient. Available to Orange and San Diego county residents, Mission Hospital is the only electrophysiology program in the region using this latest technology.

Medical Software Availability for Tablet Devices Increases As They Become More Popular

October 10, 2011

Richard Raucci Imagine you’re a busy medical professional. While walking down the corridor of the hospital on your way to surgery, you pull up information on patients you plan to see that day, including their full medical histories and up-to-the-minute vital signs. With the swipe of a finger, you bring to your screen updated and centralized procedure and visit records, then you access a patient’s realtime EKG information and dip into the hospital-wide medical database through a VPN connection to your hospital’s Intranet. The Stereotaxis Odyssey realtime monitoring / recording system allows for a multiple-window view into medical / surgical procedures as they happen. This includes camera views, telemetry information, and xray / MRI displays. An audio link provides for direct interaction, and the entire procedure can be recorded for training purposes. The vendor provided a Windows 7 tablet to show the system in action, and it worked well, over a WiFi connection to the Intranet server that processed the data from various medical devices and live feeds from other vendors at the show.

Ablation Therapy Restores Heart's Healthy Rhythm

September 29, 2011

Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center was among the first in the nation to get the Stereotaxis technology and is among its most experienced users. In the first year of operation, the center performed about 150 procedures, including the one on Hitchcock, and became a national teaching site for physicians wanting to learn the Stereotaxis system. Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center also is testing a competing robotic system that likely will benefit smaller hospitals because it does not have the same physical requirements of the big magnet system. It also will soon join the National Institutes of Health funded-CABANA trial based at the Mayo Clinic examining the more global issue of whether ablation is superior to drugs and heart rate control devices such as defibrillators at reducing mortality rates.

STOPping-Ventricular Tachycardia with Stereotaxis Ablation: Interview with Electrophysiologist Dr. Zyad Younan

September 28, 2011

Ventricular tachycardia is the most common life-threatening arrhythmia, defined as a series of three or more ventricular contractions occurring at a rate of 100-250 beats per minute. VT may lead to sudden cardiac death and together with ventricular fibrillations result in an estimated 300,000 deaths per year in the United States. While acute therapeutic options include defibrillation and cardioversion, drug regimens and surgical ablation of the problematic cardiac tissue are more permanent options. This latter – cardiac ablation – has just recently become more appealing from the dual perspectives of safety and efficacy.

New way to treat VT

January 23, 2011

Doctors have long searched for a better way to treat ventricular tachycardia, or VT, which can cause sudden cardiac death. The drugs used for it can have undesirable side effects. Implantable defibrillators, another treatment, are also not popular. Now, cardiologists believe they have found an answer: Magnet-guided catheters to destroy the damaged heart tissue that created the problem. Dr. John Miller, director of cardiac electrophysiology for Clarian Health, participated in a recent trial of this approach called Stereotaxis.

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson brings leading-edge arrhythmia therapy to New Brunswick region

December 9, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) have completed their installation of the Stereotaxis Remote Magnetic Navigation System, manufactured by Stereotaxis, Inc., to treat complex cardiac arrhythmias. The Stereotaxis System is the only remote magnetic navigation technology currently installed in the central New Jersey region to perform cardiac ablations. Physicians affiliated with RWJUH and UMDNJ-RWJMS use the system to perform both routine and complex ablations in all four chambers of the heart.

New robotic lab makes heart procedures safer

July 1, 2010

Sunnybrook's Schulich Heart Centre has opened Toronto's first robotic arrhythmia invasive lab where patients with irregular heartbeats can receive minimally invasive treatment to restore normal heart function. Dr. Eugene Crystal, Head of Arrhythmnia Services is featured in the second edition of, HeartMatters, a Schulich Heart Centre publication providing updates on innovations, clinical services, education and staff activities.