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electrophysiology is defined by constant innovation: better mapping, advanced imaging, unique catheters. despite all this progress, all forms of ablation today are thermal. heart tissue is either burned or frozen to cell death. while it has worked, there are drawbacks with thermal ablation. it indiscriminately destroys all tissue types, including the structural scaffold of the heart, not just the targeted cardiac myocytes. the freedom to ablate near vital structures pulsed electric field a new era in cardiac ablation pulsed electrical field (pef) is emerging to be the most promising energy source for cardiac ablation, incredibly fast, pef makes contiguous, transmural lesions in a few heart beats. it puts you in control, allowing for entirely new levels of precision. the discriminating energy source while pef ablation is faster and has the promise of high efficiency, its true advantage is the heart’s different tissue types, including nerve, blood vessel, collagen and endothelial cells, each have different tolerances to pef voltages. likewise, other structures adjacent to the heart such as the esophagus and phrenic nerve have different tolerances to pef dosing. as the electric field that leads to cardiac myocyte cell death is much lower than that required to affect other structural cells and organs, pef ablates them without harming neighboring critical cells. farawave is a percutaneous catheter designed to create transmural and contiguous lesions on the endocardium of the left atrium to isolate the pulmonary veins. simple to maneuver, it maintains a high degree of flexibility for the optimal placement of the catheter tip. in a matter of heartbeats lesions are achieved without compromising vulnerable structures in and adjacent to the left atrium. epi faraone is designed to create a box lesion around all pulmonary veins from an epicardial placement of the catheter for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. an innovatively conceived system, the catheter loops around the entirety of the posterior of the left atrium, then