Boca Raton Community Hospital Adds the Latest in 3D Mapping

Doctors at Boca Raton Community Hospital (BRCH) announced the acquisition of the EnSite Velocity Cardiac Mapping System. This technology is the latest version in three-dimensional mapping systems used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. With this technology, cardiologists who specialize in the treatment of irregular heartbeats (electrophysiologists) can now visualize the heart in 3D. This, in turn, enhances the physician’s ability to maneuver a catheter throughout the heart and increases control over its placement in specific locations.

“Mapping” is a visualization of the heart and its sites of electrical impulses. The map helps doctors determine what kind of arrhythmia the patient has and where it starts. Once that is established, in a procedure called “ablation”, a catheter is guided to the abnormal site and radio waves are used to destroy the pathway causing the rhythm abnormality.