VOIS’s ability to monitor the oxygenation and blood flow of the most anterior part of the brain has proven to be very effective as it assists the care giver in optimizing the cerebral blood flow.

 

• About 80% of all strokes are ischemic (lack of oxygen) strokes and the first 72 hours (acute phase) are critical to the outcome

 

• 1.5 Million traumatic brain injuries in the U.S.A per year (17% are hospitalized)

 

• 85% of subarachnoid hemorrhage (area between brain and tissue surrounding the brain) are caused by a ruptured aneurysm with a 50% fatality rate

      (Brain Monitoring with Diffuse Optics Techniques, 2011)

 

WHY VOIS WILL SUCCED

• Ability to individualize management in operating room, during patient transportation and at the bedside

• Allows optimization of cerebral blood flow preventing damage to tissue

• Measures continuously which is important with critically unstable patients

• Portable, which other methods are not, to assist when transporting patients