NayaMed Cool.Cast – Topic 1 – AT Management

At NayaMed, we realize that you have an endless number of choices of what to read on the internet, especially as they relate to medical devices. Therefore, I’d like to say thank you for landing here, on the NayaMed blog to learn more about the AT Management Cool.Cast series.

So, why did we launch the new Cool.Cast Series with AT Management? It’s simple; the incidence of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is growing at an alarming rate. Our Technical Advisors can personally attest to, and have seen first-hand, that devices can be utilized by clinicians to detect subclinical and symptomatic AF, thus helping to address this growing problem. Before continuing, I believe it’s important to explain that our AT Management Cool.Cast Series will not teach you how to manage your AT device patients, you know this far better than we do. What our AT Management Cool.Cast Series will do, is to strangely entertain and uniquely train on the AT Management features in NayaMed devices.

The first delivery of the AT Management Cool.Cast Series is an infographic, ‘A look at the evolution of medical devices & equipment in the past century’. You may have already seen it and if so, we hope you enjoyed the ‘experience’. We encourage you to pin it, post it, print it, tweet it, blast it, read it again and again….there are no rules so why not have some fun.

The second delivery of the AT Management Cool.Cast Series is a Tech Tip called ‘Better Diagnosis of Atrial Flutter & Atrial Fibrillation in NayaMed Pacemakers’. I think you’ll find that our Tech Tips are a fast and simple way to learn about NayaMed devices. In fact, after reading our AT Management Tech Tip, we believe you’ll say to yourself, sure, this is something that I can keep in the back of my mind for my AT patients.

The final delivery of the AT Management Cool.Cast Series is a NayaCast titled ‘Blanked Flutter Search’. With this video simulation, we explain an AT feature that is, in our opinion, not wholly appreciated and maybe even sometimes misunderstood. We’re confident, though, that after experiencing the ‘Blanked flutter Search’ NayaCast you’ll see that the feature is actually quite smart and an important one to have in a device for your AT/AF patients.

Now that you know what to expect from our AT Management Cool.Cast Series, I don’t think I’d be doing a thorough job if I didn’t describe all of our AT Management features – AT is the topic after all.

So, without further ado, here are the AT Management features that can benefit patients with AT/AF:

1. Mode switch which, when coupled with Blanked Flutter Search, allow patients with regular Atrial Flutter, or AF, to appropriately mode switch. Seems like a normal thing to have but not everyone has this!
2. Conducted AF Response (CAFR) which regularizes the ventricular rhythm during an AT/AF episode and thus aims to minimize the symptoms of an irregular rhythm due to AT/AF. Again, a nice feature to have in your back pocket for those patients that are symptomatic from an irregular rhythm due to AT/AF.
3. High Rate Episodes Collected Data to help identify true AT/AF as early as possible. Our Tech Tip talks about how to use and interpret the results in your AT patients.
4. Atrial Arrhythmia Trend to help determine the time spent each day in an AT/AF and over time.
   
5. VRate During AT/AF Histogram to help determine whether the ventricular rate is controlled while in AT/AF.
6. Non-competitive atrial pacing (NCAP) to prevent pacing during the atrial vulnerable period, which could induce an AT/AF episode. Not a game changer but again, good to have.
   

So, with this blog post, we kick off our Cool.Cast Series with AT Management.

Mary Soranno

NayaMed Technical Advisor

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