Abbott Receives Health Canada approval for Aveir VR leadless pacemaker - Cardiac Rhythm News

Abbott has announced that Health Canada has approved the Aveir single-chamber (VR) leadless pacemaker.

The Aveir leadless pacemaker is implanted straight wrong the heart’s close ventricle via a minimally invasive process to dainty slower-than-normal bosom rates. Unlike accepted pacemakers, leadless pacemakers bash not necessitate an incision successful the thorax to implant the instrumentality oregon cardiac leads to present therapy, Abbott said successful a property release.

The instrumentality has a unsocial mapping capableness designed to let physicians to measurement electrical signals wrong the bosom and find the close placement of the instrumentality earlier last implantation.

The quality comes aft the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Aveir VR successful April 2022.