According to the newspaper The Irish TimesIrish scientists have developed a new system to remove blood clots from stroke patients in just 20 minutes.
This system was invented by a team at NUI Galway and allows such patients to be safely treated under local anesthesia and return home the same day as the procedure.
It is understood that European and US patents were obtained last month for the invention that provides minimally invasive access to a patient’s artery through the neck and close to the location of the brain clot.
Physician and professor Sherif Sultan conceived of this method and built a prototype with co-inventor Dr. Niamh Hynes, along with biomedical engineers Colin Henehan and Stefan Lohfeld. Sultan hopes that this invention will be made in Ireland and thus create jobs in the medical device sector.
This percutaneous vascular surgical system promises to provide a “simpler but safer” means of providing arterial access, intervention, and closure. It uses an ordinary syringe to remove the clot, without the need to filter or re-introduce the blood instead of the expensive pumps used in existing devices.
Professor Sultan predicts that the new procedures would transform surgeries and be carried out on an outpatient basis, which is quicker and less complicated for patients to recover from, limiting the possibility of brain injury.
Reduces procedure time by 50 percent to 20 minutes, with a lower-cost device that eliminates the risk of cranial nerve damage and avoids an overnight hospital stay.
Source: Okchicas
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