Direct Wire Pacing technique
(DWP®)
DWP® is a direct cardiac stimulation technique using PCI* or TAVR* guidewires.
(for example, wire which allow stent or valve delivery to the heart).
Direct Wire Pacing (DWP®) technique
More and more frequently, percutaneous cardiovascular interventions (complex PCI*, TAVR,) require temporary cardiac stimulation. Usually, this is generated via a temporary pacing catheter inserted through a dedicated venous access that are both likely to generate vascular or cardiac complications.
To reduce these potentially life-threatenin complications and the complexity of the procedure, a new stimulation strategy has been developed: the “Direct Wire Pacing technique». In this approach, the cardiac stimulation is provided via the interventional guidewire and a cutaneous anode both connected to an external pacemaker.
This is breakthrough technique for interventional cardiology which has already been partially adopted by cardiological community.
The Direct Wire Pacing technique is at the origin of the development of the Electroducer® Sleeve medical device.
*PCI: Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions
Why is it better using DWP®?
A multicentre randomized controlled trial (EASY TAVI) performed in 2019 on 302 patients comparing the Direct Wire Pacing technique to the standard RV-stimulation (temporary pacing catheter), was able to show superiority of DWP® technique.
While avoiding the implantation of a catheter dedicated to temporary cardiac stimulation in the right ventricle, the Direct Wire Pacing® technique:
Electroducer® aims to avoid the many handling errors found when using the standard technique, which should further increase the observed performance gains and medical community adoption.
DWP® (Direct Wire Pacing) publications
CJC OPEN
Oualid Zouaghi, MD, Jérôme Wintzer-Wehekind, MD, Yves Lienhart, MD, Mohamed Abdellaoui, MD, Benjamin Faurie, MD.
Ambulatory TAVR : early feasibility experience during covid-19 pandemic.
Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions
Francesco Burzotta MD, PhD, Cristina Aurigemma MD, PhD, Enrico Romagnoli MD, PhD, Osama Shoeib MD, PhD, Giulio Russo MD, Aniello Zambrano MD, Diana Verdirosi MSc, Antonio Maria Leone MD, PhD, Piergiorgio Bruno MD, Carlo Trani MD.
A less‐invasive totally‐endovascular (LITE) technique for trans‐femoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Journal of American College of Cardiology
Benjamin Faurie, Géraud Souteyrand, Patrick Staat, Matthieu Godin, Christophe Caussin, Eric Van Belle, Lionel Mangin, Pierre Meyer, Nicolas Dumonteil, Mohamed Abdellaoui, Jacques Monségu, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Thierry Lefèvre and for the EASY TAVI Investigators. Left Ventricular Rapid Pacing Via the Valve Delivery Guidewire in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC), Volume 12, Issue 24 (2449-2459), December 2019
Benjamin Faurie, Géraud Souteyrand, Patrick Staat, Matthieu Godin, Christophe Caussin, Eric Van Belle, Lionel Mangin, Pierre Meyer, Nicolas Dumonteil, Mohamed Abdellaoui, Jacques Monségu, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Thierry Lefèvre and for the EASY TAVI Investigators.
Left Ventricular Rapid Pacing Via the Valve Delivery Guidewire in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.
TCT MED
Benjamin Faurie.
A New Device to Secure and Optimize Transcatheter Heart Valve Interventions (THV) and Complex PCI.
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Grégoire Lefèvre, MD, Arnaud Jégou, MD, Grégoire Dambrin, MD, Fabien Picard, MD, Joseph Anconina, MD, Bruno Pouzet, MD, Laurent Guesnier, MD, Riadh Cheikh Khelifa, MD, Loïc Hilpert, MD, Huy Long Doan, MD, Xavier Favereau, MD.
Comparison of transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement performed with a minimally invasive simplified technique: “FAST” versus a standard approach.
Catherization & Cardiovascular Interventions
Roland Hilling‐Smith MD FRACP, James Cockburn MD MRCP, Maureen Dooley MD MRCP, Jessica Parker MSc RGN, Andrea Newton BSc, Andrew Hill MD FRCA, Uday Trivedi MD FRCS, Adam de Belder MD FRCP, David Hildick‐Smith MD FRCP.
Rapid pacing using the 0.035‐in. Retrograde left ventricular support wire in 208 cases of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
Catherization & Cardiovascular Interventions
Benjamin Faurie MD, Mohamed Abdellaoui MD, Fabrice Wautot MD, Patrick Staat MD, Didier Champagnac MD, Jérome Wintzer‐Wehekind MD, Gérald Vanzetto MD, Bernard Bertrand MD, Jacques Monségu MD.
Rapid pacing using the left ventricular guidewire: Reviving an old technique to simplify BAV and TAVI procedures.
Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Crochan J. O’Sullivan, MB, BCh and Bernhard Meier, MD.
Left main coronary stent positioning using rapid transcoronary pacing.
Catherization & Cardiovascular Interventions
Bernhard Meier, MD, and Wilhelm Rutishauser, MD.
Coronary pacing during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.