{"id":1690,"date":"2019-09-03T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stratusmedical.com\/?page_id=1690"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:13:27","slug":"nimbus-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stratusmedical.com\/us\/nimbus-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMBUS Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?resize=1200%2C444&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?resize=768%2C284&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?resize=1024%2C379&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stratusmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/overview-3.webp?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>NIMBUS Overview<\/h2>\t\t<p>The NIMBUS Multitined Expandable Electrode was invented by an interventional pain management physician that wanted a cost effective, easy-to-use, RF cannula that would provide a large and optimally shaped lesion for treating chronic pain patients in hospital. \u00a0After tremendous effort and significant investment into the design, testing, validation, IP and regulatory clearances, NIMBUS was born.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Busy interventional pain management practitioners appreciate the simplicity and efficiency of NIMBUS to treat both simple and complex RF targets for pain.\u00a0 NIMBUS provides a large 8mm \u2013 10mm prolate spheroid lesion<sup>4<\/sup>\u00a0that minimizes technical obstacles and allows a simple perpendicular<sup>5<\/sup> or \u201cdown-the-beam\u201d approach.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>NIMBUS has been shown to significantly decrease procedural time<sup>2<\/sup>, which opens up procedure rooms for additional patient treatments and provides improved revenue opportunity to the hospitals and surgery centers where NIMBUS is utilized.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>NIMBUS enables the interventional pain management practitioners to place the cannula perpendicular<sup>5<\/sup> to a target and create a large field lesion volume with a single heat-cycle. Whether the target is \u201cdown the beam\u201d, for example medial branch; or is a cephalocaudal running nerve, for example genicular or sympathetic chain; NIMBUS creates a proper lesion efficiently.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>When compared to other large volume RF techniques such as internally cooled electrodes, NIMBUS is more cost effective, efficient, easy to use and requires no special equipment.\u00a0 NIMBUS is the only large lesion RF device for pain with MRI validation<sup>5<\/sup>\u00a0of lesion size (601.7mm<sup>3<\/sup>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMBUS Overview The NIMBUS Multitined Expandable Electrode was invented by an interventional pain management physician that wanted a cost effective, easy-to-use, RF cannula that would provide a large and optimally shaped lesion for treating chronic pain patients in hospital. \u00a0After tremendous effort and significant investment into the design, testing, validation, IP and regulatory clearances, NIMBUS &#8230; <a title=\"NIMBUS Overview\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stratusmedical.com\/us\/nimbus-overview\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NIMBUS Overview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163851896,"featured_media":9292,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1690","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.3 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NIMBUS Overview - Stratus Medical<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nimbus was invented by an interventional pain management physician that wanted a cost effective, easy to use, RF cannula that would provide a large and optimally shaped lesion for treating chronic pain patients in hospital. 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