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Match would-be startups with local industry, academia, and related institutionsSurgical Device for Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Yang Bing-shiang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Year 2016Year
Period:2016-05-01 to 2017-12-31
Overview
- Given the 36-50% death rate of patients undergoing hemorrhage stroke surgery, there is an urgency to develop a minimally invasive surgical device to increase patient survival and decrease complications.
- This is a multifunction surgical device for removing intracerebral hematomas that features an ergonomic interface to perform real-time monitoring, debridement and suction, and guiding and positioning simultaneously.
- Promote patient survival and prognosis outcomes by improving the traditional approach to spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage surgery and saving time for devices replacement.
Development Process
Over the course of this project under the Applied Research Incubation Program, the team completed prototype design and manufacturing as well as functionality assays thereof. Hematomas were put inside a pig brain for this device to perform removal; the debridement rate came in at 70%. Meanwhile, medical imaging was employed to monitor the surgical process with a view to minimizing damage done to the brain.
