Live demo of new epicardial sensors

Reseachers from the Interventional Centre at Rikshospitalet Oslo University Hospital demonstrated 3 different new epicardial sensors live at a Workshop with the topic "Technology demo session: In-vivosensors in surgery" at the pHealth Conference on June 24th 2009. The sensors represents various stages of research based,experimental product development at the Interventional Centre. The sensors presented were a 3-axis accelerometer, an ultra sound sensor and a pCO2 sensor (Alertis Medical). All sensors represent a new type of sensors capable of local ischemia detection from heartbeat to heartbeat. The accelerometer and the ultra sound sensors are also able to detect changes in ventricular contraction patterns.