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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | AMEX: STXS |
| Industry | Medical appliances and equipment |
| Headquarters | St. Louis  |
| Key people | David L. Fischel (CEO) |
| Products | Niobe Es Magnetic Navigation System Genesis RMN System |
| Website | www |
Stereotaxis Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation based in St. Louis, Missouri, that makes robotic products to try to improve the clinical outcomes of electrophysiology studies.
Products
The Niobe Es Magnetic Navigation System includes two pods that use permanent magnets mounted on pivoting arms and positioned on opposing sides of the operating table. The magnets are controlled by physicians from the outside using a mouse, keyboard, joystick, and a viewing screen. The rotation of the magnets within the Niobe pods influences the magnetic catheters in the heart to make micro movements of the catheter tip (in increments of 1 mm to 9 mm) to navigate throughout the four chambers of the heart.
The RMN system was originally designed for applications within the brain; its current usage is guiding magnetic catheters during electrophysiology studies and catheter ablation procedures to treat arrhythmias in the heart. It has been used in over 100,000 procedures worldwide as of 2017. In January 2022, Stereotaxis announced that the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital became the first in central China to establish a robotic electrophysiology program with the product.
References
- ^ "Niobe® system". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Navigant (M588020004500260)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Odyssey (M58800100701020)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "Magnetic vs Manual Catheters". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "Odyssey® solution". Stereotaxis. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- Yuan, Shiwen; Holmqvist, Fredrik; Kongstad, Ole; Jensen, Steen M.; Wang, Lingwei; Ljungström, Erik; Hertervig, Eva; Borgquist, Rasmus (November 2, 2017). "Long-term outcomes of the current remote magnetic catheter navigation technique for ablation of atrial fibrillation". Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal. 51 (6): 308–315. doi:10.1080/14017431.2017.1384566. ISSN 1401-7431. PMID 28958165. S2CID 25501499.
- "AccessGUDID - DEVICE: Niobe MNS Philips (M58800100610010)". accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "Stereotaxis' (STXS) CEO David Fischel on Q1 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript". www.msn.com. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
- "Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital Adopts Stereotaxis Robotic Magnetic Navigation Technology". Surgical Robotics Technology. January 28, 2022. Retrieved January 31, 2022.