Visible EP’s real-time, interactive model is perfectly suited for integrating into physical simulators. We provide the missing link between physical, hands-on training with real catheters and clinical electrophysiology! Our model can be integrated into existing physical simulator platforms to provide real-time electrical feedback on catheters as they are manipulated in the real world. The training experience is also taken to the next level by allowing students to perform virtual EP studies, i.e. diagnostic pacing, electroanatomic mapping, and even virtual ablation.

Simulator Module

The simulator module plugs directly into a physical simulator. The catheter positions in the model are controlled by the physical catheters, allowing real-time electrical feedback. Catheter readings are output to an external tracing system, or displayed with Visible EP’s own tracing tools. The system is also interactive: students may perform pacing maneuvers to diagnose substrates and even ablate them, all in real time.

Visualization Module

The visualization module allows fellows to see the answer. Visible EP’s model is the only system which provides real-time visualization of electrical propagation as it is simulated! A training clinician can see the real-time activation that leads to the electrogram signals obtained from catheters located inside the heart.

Mapping Module

The mapping module completes the virtual EP study experience. Using this mapping system, students may perform electroanatomic mapping studies to locate reentrant circuits which can then be targeted for ablation. Using a variety of unknown patients, a student can truly learn how to map and ablate patients in a completely virtual environment.

Commercial System Interoperability Modules

Our model has to ability to interact with already available commercial systems. A third-party electrogram or mapping system can be connected to our system, thinking that the data it is receiving is coming from a real patient! This has the advantage of training fellows to be comfortable on real commercial systems.

Pathologic Substrates

We can develop substrates with certain pathologies such that they are prone to certain abnormal rhythms. This is equivalent to providing patients with specific forms of heart disease. In particular, we can create cases of atrial flutter, atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia, accessory pathway mediated tachycardia, and atrial fibrillation. These may be loaded as unknowns in mapping studies, or they can be used as learning examples with the simulator and visualization modules.