Just read that article the other day and was upset about it. I just had a FIRM Ablation done on June 2nd. Get my final results in September if it worked or not.

This comment was really strong:

"These findings, from a center famous for cardiac mapping, gives credence to one of the main arguments cited by skeptical European doctorsthat the secret sauce, the black box of Topera, is a flawed algorithm."

Then I read Topera paid him over $10M for speaking"

"Dec 22, 2014 $10,964,989
No Listed Product Promotional Speaking/Other
Additional details on this payment
Topera, Inc."

If the alogorithm is flawed and he made $10M...

Let's see how this pans out. If you get the PVI AND the focal rotors ablated, it should work.

I'm still jealous about the $10M.

You can see if your doctor got paid from companies on this website:

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/1235478

This website says he was ranked #1 on payments:

https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/doctors/pid/1235478/

But maybe invested that much on the product. It better work. I have heard of others that had it done and were satisfied.

I guess I was naive. When I was scheduled for my Ablation I noticed that it was going to be done at a hospital that wasn't close to home. I emailed the EP and asked him why he scheduled it there. He said that he liked the Topera Mapping System better. I assumed he knew what was best for me. I had no idea at the time the difference between an Ablation vs a FIRM Ablation. Why don't these doctor's explain things better??

They told me that after the procedure was over I would ask
" Is it all over" ???

He had scheduled me for 4 hours in the Lab and it went over 6 hours. They had to get me out of the Lab because someone was waiting to go in. As they were taking me to the Recovery Room I started waking up.....only to watch them take the Catheters out of my groin (dripping in blood) then having two nurses putting pressure on that area for about 15 to 20 minutes. All this with my family watching in the Recovery Room totally exposed. My daughters told me they would have been happy sitting in the Waiting Room until it was done.



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Also, they had me scheduled for 4 hours in the Lab and and it went over
6 hours. So, someone else was waiting to go into the Lab. As they were taken me out of the Lab into the Recovery Room I woke up just as they were taking out the catheter

Oh Sam, Glad That experience is over for you and you are on the mend.

I am hoping you are in for Successful NSR!!!!!