Do the magnets pose any kind of risk to the patient?
Dr. Shivkumar: The magnets actually make the procedure safer. That is clearly something that’s been well shown. Sometimes with hand manipulation, there is a small risk that you could perforate the heart or create a small hole, and in a small number of patients, this can cause bleeding around the heart. The risk of that happening with a technology such as this is actually much lower because there is a greater degree of precision. It’s a kind of precision that would be hard to achieve just by using hands, so magnets, in this case, are safer. It’s important to note that magnets have been around in medicine for several decades, like with magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) and so forth. Compared to an MRI, this magnet is a lot weaker, and magnets, per se, do not pose a health risk. Indeed, patients who have devices are told not to have an MRI, in specific circumstances, we could actually use this technology in those patients safely. In terms of precision and accuracy, does this make it easie
