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Proactive esophageal cooling reduces injury during radiofrequency (RF) ablation of the left atrium (LA) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). New catheters are capable of higher wattage settings up to 90 W (very high-power short duration, vHPSD) for 4 s. Varying power and duration, however, does not eliminate the risk of thermal injury. Furthermore, alternative energy sources such as pulsed field ablation (PFA) also exhibit thermal effects, with clinical data showing esophageal temperatures up to 40.3°C. The ensoETM esophageal cooling device (Attune Medical, now a part of Haemonetics, Boston, MA, U.S.A.) is commercially available and FDA-cleared to reduce thermal injury to the esophagus during RF ablation for AF and is recommended in the 2024 expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of AF.

Proactive esophageal cooling during radiofrequency cardiac ablation: data update including applications in very high-power short duration ablation.

Pulsed field ablation (PFA) is described as non-thermal, but data from oncology and cardiology show thermal effects occur. The specific waveform parameters influencing thermal energy development during PFA are unclear. The aim of this study is to numerically evaluate the thermal effects of PFA on myocardial and oesophageal tissue at various peak voltage conditions.

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Proactive esophageal cooling during radiofrequency cardiac ablation: data update including applications in very high-power short duration ablation. Expert review of medical devices\| PubMed ID: 39720904	2025
Thermal side effects during pulsed field ablation: an analysis using computer modelling. Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology\| PubMed ID: 39960855	2025

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