Brain Pressure Monitor to be Trialled

Published date : 04 December 2012
Article date : 04 December 2012

 

An article in the Winsconsin State Journal (US) reports on a medical device that enables doctors to externally monitor brain pressure in children with hydrocephalus - a condition where the body is unable to reabsorb the spinal fluid that bathes the brain.  
 
Apparently, the device avoids the patient having to go through invasive surgery with the implant sending signals about brain pressure to a hand held scanner. They say that the implant was invented at UW Hospital by a neurosurgeon and it will now be trialled in animals with human trials expected to follow within 1.5 to 2 years. 
 
Source: Ron Seely, Winsconsin State Journal, 02 December 2012. 
 
Read the original article here. 

 

 

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