Biosense, Inc.

Shlomo Ben Haim

Uri Yaron

Avraham Matcovitch

Assaf Govari

Maier Fenster

Apparatus for intracardiac drug administration, including a catheter which is inserted into a chamber of the heart and brought into engagement with a site in the heart wall. The catheter includes at least one position sensor, which generates signals responsive to the position of the catheter within the heart, and a drug delivery device, which administers a desired dose of a therapeutic drug at the site determined responsive to the signals from the position sensor.

Apparatus and method for intracardiac therapy using sensor for heart wall thickness

Intracardiac drug delivery

An apparatus for intracardiac drug administration of a therapeutic drug comprises a catheter having a distal end and a drug delivery device which is driveable from the distal end. The drug delivery device includes a needle and a spring-loaded mechanism operatively connected to the needle. The spring-loaded mechanism drives the needle out of the distal end of the catheter upon administering of the therapeutic drug. The spring-loaded mechanism returns the needle within the distal end of the catheter after the administering of the therapeutic drug.

Intracardiac drug delivery device utilizing spring-loaded mechanism

Verification apparatus (,), for verifying the location of an object (,) in a patient's body (,), the apparatus having learn and test modes and including a receiver (,), which receives signals from the object responsive to the location thereof. A parameter vector is derived from the signals. A memory (,) records a learn value of the parameter vector in the learn mode. A processor (,) receives a test value of the parameter vector in the test mode, and determines whether the test value is within a predetermined range of the learn values so as to verify the location of the object (,).

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Haifa, Israel

Shlomo Ben Haim