St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center
The St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center is designed to provide health care professionals with comprehensive and customized training on advanced technologies. Using practical and didactic training methods, physicians are able to increase their comfort level with the new technology to enhance case efficiency.
Presented in a systematic and objective-based approach to professional education, each session offers personalized hands-on training to meet attendee goals while emphasizing control, safety and clinical application of St. Jude Medical product.
Created to meet the specific needs of the full cardiovascular service line of health care professionals, the state-of-the-art facility boasts multiple technology suites, A-V enhanced classrooms and is designed to facilitate discussion and shared learning.
Through a combination of user-friendly precision simulators and one-on-one personalized training, St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center visitors work to bridge the gap between education and real-life experience with regards to St. Jude Medical products. Specific simulations include cardiac lead implantation, supraventricular ablation and transseptal procedures.
Hands-on training, including programming workshops, systems operation, electrode manipulation and heart dissection wet labs provide electrophysiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and allied health care professionals with a skills-focused opportunity to increase confidence and improve control during cardiac procedures.
A distinguished faculty of thought-leading physicians and experienced clinical instructors deliver the St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center programs utilizing clinical evidence and case studies to provoke discussions, provide insight and present advancements in disease management and therapy delivery.
Select locations will feature an integrated “Lab of the Future,” which enables physicians to interact with St. Jude Medical technology and to simulate patient procedures in a realistic environment. Health care administrators can see firsthand how the St. Jude Medical integrated product portfolio can improve patient outcomes and workflow efficiency, as well as reduce health care costs. This Lab allows the visitor to envision a fully-integrated lab, which can only be brought to life by the broadest and deepest technology portfolio available today: the St. Jude Medical product family.
From initial device programming to trouble-shooting techniques and access to closure, St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center visitors can increase their understanding and knowledge on a wide variety of topics, including:
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
- Pacemakers
- Lead delivery systems
- Remote monitoring and health record systems integration
- EP access and electrode catheter products
- Integrated EP recording, pacing and imaging systems
- 3D navigation and mapping systems
- Surgical and catheter-based ablation technologies
- Venous and arterial closure devices
- Heart valve repair and replacement products
- Lesion assessment technologies
- Structural heart therapies
The US St. Jude Medical Advanced Technology Center is located in Austin, Texas, with new facilities opening soon in St. Paul, Minnesota and Sylmar, California.