New stretchable electronics device promises to make cardiac ablation therapy simpler
Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
In an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can be a long and painful procedure as many catheters, with different functions, need to be inserted sequentially.