Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a disorder of the heart characterized by Every year, an estimated 375,000 patients worldwide are candidates for a combined arrhythmia ablation with CABG and/or MV procedure. Atrial fibrillation has now become the most common complication of cardiovascular surgery. SurgiFrost™ is a malleable, single-use cryosurgical probe developed to treat cardiac arrhythmias during open-heart surgery. The probe will ablate cardiac tissue while a patient is undergoing a primary cardiac surgical procedure, such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or mitral valve (MV) replacement and/or repair. As a practical nurse at an assisted living facility, Carol Weigand sees people every day with conditions that restrict their lives. With the prospect of having to take retirement disability at 56, this atrial fibrillation patient came to know personally the kind of hardships her clients bear. Hospitalized two times in the last year alone, she jumped at the chance to hear how Dr. Irwin could help her. “I actually feel better now than before I was diagnosed. I used to feel fatigued even going to the grocery store,” she says following her ablation that was performed using Arctic Circler. “I look forward to gaining more stamina each day.”
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