Fluoroless Conduction System Implant
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Fluoroless Conduction System Implant
IRAS ID
343445
Contact name
Zachary Whinnett
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Conduction system pacing is a new way of stimulating the heart using pacemaker wires. Traditional pacemakers stimulate the heart muscle which causes disordered heart beats: the walls of the heart move at different times. This wears down the heart over time.
Conduction system pacemakers stimulate the heart’s electrical system directly producing natural heart beats that are much less disordered. These pacemakers can be challenging to insert with different heart shapes, sizes and scars. This can increase procedure times and time exposed to xray as pacemakers are inserted using x-rays to guide where the lead is implanted.
This study aims to allow conduction system pacemakers to implanted without the use of normal xray (fluoroscopy).
I will create a anatomical shell of the heart using special plastic (mapping) catheters than is inserted within the heart from the groin. I will use a special heart scanning (echo) catheter to see how the pacemaker wire is inserted into the heart muscle. I will use MRI to confirm that the information we collect is accurate. Using this information I will create a protocol to implant a lead that does not require xray, using only the mapping catheter.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 5
REC reference
25/WS/0023
Date of REC Opinion
8 May 2025
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion