First case in China! Neusoft Medical’s DSA and magnetic navigation robot successfully perform 5G remote AF&PVC procedures

Release time:2023.10.23

Recently, the 16th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) was held in Hong Kong in a combined online and offline form.

Experts from Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital and Wuxi People's Hospital successfully performed China's first 5G remote arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation radiofrequency ablation procedures by using NeuAngio 30F high-end DSA system and magnetic navigation robot system.

In the cathlab of Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital, doctors connecting to Wuxi People's Hospital, 850 kilometers away, through 5G network to successfully completed the first 5G remote arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation procedure in China with a live broadcast to the Asia-Pacific region through the APHRS Annual Meeting in Hong Kong. Top medical experts from China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and other countries watched the live show simultaneously.

The patient was a 36 years old woman with a one-month history of palpitations. She was diagnosed by specialists at Wuxi People's Hospital as having premature ventricular contractions. The disease had seriously affected the patient's life and work and caused major damage to her heart. The patient was told that an interventional operation should be done as soon as possible. In order to perform the surgery more accurately, Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital 's Deputy Chief Physician Dr. Chen Ke and other experts decided to perform 5G remote robotic magnetic navigation arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation for the patient.

Nearly 1,000 kilometers away in Wuxi People's Hospital, the remote-controlled robot completed the precise positioning, control, and ablation. Just 15 minutes later, the surgery was successfully completed, completely solving the patient's premature ventricular contractions diagnosis.

At the same time, the chief physicians, Dr. Wang Ruxing and Dr. Zhao Xiaoxi, from Wuxi People's Hospital, successfully performed radiofrequency ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation using a remote robotic magnetic navigation system on a 58 years old male patient at Fu Wai Huazhong Cardiovascular Disease Hospital.

Compared with traditional manual ablation, arrhythmia catheter ablation guided by magnetic navigation system has the advantages of high procedural success rate, low complications, short X-ray exposure time for patient and operator, and is also easy to access.