
[Federal Register: October 15, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 200)]
[Notices]               
[Page 61137-61138]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0038]

 
Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory 
Committee; Notice of Meeting

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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    This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory 
committee of the Food and Drug Administration

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(FDA). The meeting will be open to the public.
    Name of Committee: Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical 
Devices Advisory Committee.
    General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and 
recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
    Date and Time: The meeting will be held on November 20, 2008, from 
8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
    Location: Gaithersburg Holiday Inn, Ballroom, Two Montgomery 
Village Ave., Gaithersburg, MD.
    Contact Person: James Swink, Center for Devices and Radiological 
Health (HFZ-450), Food and Drug Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd., 
Rockville, MD 20850, 240-276-4050, or FDA Advisory Committee 
Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC 
area), code 3014512625. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date 
information on this meeting. A notice in the Federal Register about 
last minute modifications that impact a previously announced advisory 
committee meeting cannot always be published quickly enough to provide 
timely notice. Therefore, you should always check the agency's Web site 
and call the appropriate advisory committee hot line/phone line to 
learn about possible modifications before coming to the meeting.
    Agenda: The committee will discuss, make recommendations, and vote 
on a premarket approval application, sponsored by Biosense Webster, 
Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company, for the NaviStar ThermoCool 
irrigated RF ablation catheter. The device, an open-lumen, irrigated 
tip, steerable radiofrequency cardiac ablation catheter, is inserted 
through the venous circulation to the heart, across the intra-atrial 
septum to the left atrium to ablate cardiac tissue for the purposes of 
creating lines of block in the atria to eliminate conduction patterns 
that theoretically generate or allow propagation of paroxysmal atrial 
fibrillation.
    FDA intends to make background material available to the public no 
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post 
the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the 
background material will be made publicly available at the location of 
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be 
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is 
available at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/acmenu.htm, click on 
the year 2008 and scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee 
link.
    Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or 
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. 
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before 
October 30, 2008. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled 
for approximately 30 minutes at the beginning of committee 
deliberations and for approximately 30 minutes near the end of the 
deliberations. Those desiring to make formal oral presentations should 
notify the contact person and submit a brief statement of the general 
nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and 
addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the 
approximate time requested to make their presentation on or before 
October 22, 2008. Time allotted for each presentation may be limited. 
If the number of registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be 
reasonably accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing 
session, FDA may conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the 
scheduled open public hearing session. The contact person will notify 
interested persons regarding their request to speak by October 23, 
2008.
    Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised 
that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical 
outlets.
    FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee 
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with 
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special 
accommodations due to a disability, please contact AnnMarie Williams, 
Conference Management Staff, at 240-276-8932, at least 7 days in 
advance of the meeting.
    FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee 
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/oc/advisory/
default.htm for procedures on public conduct during advisory committee 
meetings.
    Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

    Dated: October 6, 2008.
Randall W. Lutter,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. E8-24353 Filed 10-14-08; 8:45 am]

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