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REVIEW article

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Sec. Cardiac Rhythmology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1431396

Best practices in Robotic Magnetic Navigation-guided catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, a position paper of the Society for Cardiac Robotic Navigation (SCRN)

Provisionally accepted
Anna Noten Anna Noten 1*Tamas Szili-Torok Tamas Szili-Torok 2Sabine Ernst Sabine Ernst 3David Burkhardt David Burkhardt 4Diogo Cavaco Diogo Cavaco 5Xu Chen Xu Chen 6Jim Cheung Jim Cheung 7Christian De CHILLOU Christian De CHILLOU 8Eugene Crystal Eugene Crystal 9Daniel Cooper Daniel Cooper 10Maurizio Gasparini Maurizio Gasparini 11Tamás Géczy Tamás Géczy 12Konrad Goehl Konrad Goehl 13Burkhard Huegl Burkhard Huegl 14Qi Jin Qi Jin 15Priit Kampus Priit Kampus 16Pedram Kazemian Pedram Kazemian 17Muchtiar Khan Muchtiar Khan 1Ole Kongstad Ole Kongstad 18Jarkko Magga Jarkko Magga 19Darren Peress Darren Peress 20Pekka Raatikainen Pekka Raatikainen 21Alexander Romanov Alexander Romanov 22Ole Rossvoll Ole Rossvoll 23Gurjit Singh Gurjit Singh 24Radu Vatasescu Radu Vatasescu 25Sip Wijchers Sip Wijchers 26Kohei Yamashiro Kohei Yamashiro 27Sing-Chien Yap Sing-Chien Yap 26Peter Weiss Peter Weiss 28
  • 1 Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG), Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2 University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
  • 3 Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
  • 4 Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, Minnesota, United States
  • 5 Hospital da Luz Lisboa, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 6 Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
  • 7 Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States
  • 8 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, Lorraine, France
  • 9 Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 10 School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  • 11 Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Lombardy, Italy
  • 12 Medical University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria
  • 13 Department of Electrophysiology, Klinikum Nürnberg Süd, Nuremberg, Germany, Nuremberg, Germany
  • 14 Marienhaus Klinikum St. Elisabeth, Neuwied, Germany
  • 15 Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, Beijing, China
  • 16 North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
  • 17 Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey, United States
  • 18 Lund University, Lund, Skane County, Sweden
  • 19 Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland
  • 20 pima heart physicians, Tucson, United States
  • 21 Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
  • 22 E. Meshalkin National Medical Research Center of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 23 Department of Cardiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hostpital, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
  • 24 Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, United States
  • 25 Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • 26 Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 27 Takatsuki General Hospital, Takatsuki, Ōsaka, Japan
  • 28 University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States

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    Preamble -Robotic magnetic navigation (RMN)-guided catheter ablation (CA) technology has been used for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias for almost 20 years. Various studies reported that RMN allows for high catheter stability, improved lesion formation and a superior safety profile. So far, no guidelines or recommendations on RMN-guided CA have been published.Purpose -The aim of this consensus paper was to summarize knowledge and provide recommendations on management of arrhythmias using RMN-guided CA as treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) and ventricular arrhythmias (VA).Methodology -An expert writing group, performed a detailed review of available literature, and drawing on their own experience, drafted and voted on recommendations and summarized current knowledge and practice in the field. Recommendations on RMN-guided CA are presented in a guideline format with three levels of recommendations to serve as a reference for best practices in RMN procedures. Each recommendation is accompanied by supportive text and references. The various sections cover the practical spectrum from system and patient set-up, EP laboratory staffing, combination of RMN with fluoroscopy and mapping systems, use of automation features and ablation settings and targets, for different cardiac arrhythmias.Conclusion -This manuscript, presenting the combined experience of expert robotic users and knowledge from the available literature, offers a unique resource for providers interested in the use of RMN in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.

    Keywords: Robotic magnetic navigation, Catheter Ablation, Atrial Fibrillation, Ventricular arrhythmia (VA), Remote magnetic navigation (RMN), ventricular tachycardia, Premature ventricular beat, robotic navigation

    Received: 11 May 2024; Accepted: 26 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Noten, Szili-Torok, Ernst, Burkhardt, Cavaco, Chen, Cheung, De CHILLOU, Crystal, Cooper, Gasparini, Géczy, Goehl, Huegl, Jin, Kampus, Kazemian, Khan, Kongstad, Magga, Peress, Raatikainen, Romanov, Rossvoll, Singh, Vatasescu, Wijchers, Yamashiro, Yap and Weiss. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Anna Noten, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG), Amsterdam, Netherlands

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