Stroke – BIBA Medtech Insights

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy could be a tool for encouraging cognitive recovery after stroke

Stroke is the second leading cause of mortality and the third leading cause of adult disability in the USA, causing severe long-term impairments in the lives of survivors. While the two kinds of stroke—ischaemic (85%) and haemorrhagic (15%)—differ in their origins, both culminate in compromised blood supply and subsequent brain ischaemia. This results in [...]

Selective endovascular cooling with TwinFlo catheter shows promise for neuroprotection in stroke patients

Ron Solar Ron Solar (ThermopeutiX, San Diego, USA) and colleagues report in EuroIntervention that the TwinFlo catheter (ThermopeutiX), in pigs, was associated with rapid, selective, deep cerebral hypothermia. They add that the catheter may “offer an improved method for neuroprotection during neurosurgery, cardiac arrest, acute stroke, and other ischaemic insult”. Solar talks [...]