Project: Renal RF Ablation System
Client Need:
- High blood pressure is traditionally treated with pharmaceuticals. When this two-person company determined a new way of addressing this critical disease, they came to RBC with their brand new concept: A renal denervation device to treat chronic hypertension by ablating sympathetic nerve bundles using a basket catheter in the renal artery.
How RBC Added Value:
Using the AdvantageRF RF generator platform as a head start, RBC helped deliver the Renal RF Ablation System from blank sheet to approved product in 20 months.
From concept to commercialization in 20 months!
The client came to us with conceptual requirements for a flexible generator to implement their proprietary energy delivery algorithm. This energy would be delivered into a large number of electrodes in a very small basket catheter. They knew with AdvantageRF any combination of electrodes can be precisely controlled to create a unique ablation zone.
By week 6, we were testing a rough prototype on different tissues.
By month 6, we were in pre-clinical studies using a form factor representative prototype of the device to deliver temperature controlled ablations.
A few clinical studies later, by month 14, we were in verification, validation and certification.