Coronary interventions

Feasibility of robotic telestenting over long geographic distances: a pre-clinical ex vivo and in vivo study

EuroIntervention 2019;15:e510-e512. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00106

Ryan D. Madder¹, MD; Stacie VanOosterhout¹, MEd; Abbey Mulder¹, AGPC-NP; Jared Bush¹, BS; Samuel Martin¹, MHA; Adam Rash¹, RCIS; Jose Mariano Tan II¹, MD, MBA; Jessica Parker¹, MS; Yao Li², MS; Nicholas Kottenstette², PhD; Per Bergman², MS; Brent Nowak³, PhD

1. Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, USA; 2. Corindus Vascular Robotics, Waltham, MA, USA; 3. Department of Engineering, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Introduction

Significant geographic barriers limit timely access to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in many regions of the world. One proposed means to increase PCI access is telestenting, defined as the performance of PCI using a combination of robotics and telecommunications by an operator in a separate geographic location from the patient1. In the present study, the feasibility of long-distance telestenting was tested sequentially in ex vivo and in vivo models.

Methods

The ex vivo telestenting model utilised an endovascular simulator (ANGIO Mentor™; Simbionix, Littleton, CO, USA) into which guide catheters, guidewires and balloon catheters were ...

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