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Implanting a pacemaker

Freezing
Making a pocket
Finding the vein to insert leads
Advancing a wire into the vein
Inserting a plastic sheath over the guide wire
Inserting the pacing lead through the sheath
Fixing the lead in the heart
Checking the electrical contact with the heart muscle
Removing the sheath
The pacing lead
Positioning the atrial lead
Deploying the screw in the lead
Final position of the leads
The pacemaker
Closing the pacemaker pocket
Conducting an EP study
Recording the cardiac signals
Stimulating the heart
Testing after the ablation

Cardiac Resynchronisation (ICD)

Accessing the coronary sinus
Electrical signals from the coronary sinus vein
Injecting contrast into the coronary sinus
Identifying a vein to place the LV lead
Advancing the LV lead into the vein
Checking the LV lead-part 1
Checking the LV lead-part 2
Splitting the sheath-part 1
Splitting the sheath-part 2
The LV lead
The LV lead is left in place
The ICD
Leads are inserted into the ICD

Pulmonary Vein Isolation

Access
Positioning catheters
Inserting catheters
Patient monitoring
Importing the cardiac CT scan
Recording electrical signals
Intracardiac echo
Transseptal puncture-part 1
Transseptal puncture-part 2
Transseptal puncture-part 3
Creating the left atrial map
Ablating around the pulmonary veins
Isolating a pulmonary vein

Other

Arctic Front Advance PVI Procedure
Reveal LINQ Insertion Animation

Supraventricular Tachycardia

(from Medtronic Connect Education website – www.medtronicacademy.com)

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