Revolutionizing healthcare through accurate EVD placement
Accurate | Confident | Transformative
We lost a patient
A patient with severe traumatic brain injury arrived in critical condition. Emergency ventricular access was attempted repeatedly, but rapidly shifting anatomy made standard bedside placement fail. The patient died soon after.
This is an all-too-common challenge in neurosurgical emergencies.
SoundPass Medical was founded to change that
THE SOUNDPASS SOLUTION
THE SOUNDPASS SOLUTION
A new approach to EVD placement
Our team is building the world’s first ultrasound and reconstruction algorithm capable of 3D imaging from an astounding 1.65mm diameter transducer. This provides neurosurgeons the tools they need for successful EVD placement in even the most challenging situations.
The EchoVent Platform
Three integrated technologies designed to make ventricular access visible in real time
Why SoundPass?
The Urgency
Due to the life-threatening nature of rapid brain swelling after traumatic brain injury (TBI), neurosurgeons will place EVDs to remove Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) to prevent brain herniation, permanent disability, and death, which may happen in a matter of hours, if not done promptly.
Seeing Blind
With this urgency, placement of EVDs are often done at the bedside (outside of the operating room) based on external anatomy alone (“blind approach”). Neurosurgeons have no way to see inside the skull to place EVDs in their target location (anterior horns of lateral ventricles).
The Cost
Surgeons often require 2–8 (or more) attempts through healthy brain tissue to find the ventricle if squished – if at all. The current standard of care (“blind placement”) for EVDs is associated with high error, morbidity, and unnecessary mortality; a problem over a century old since its conception. We believe this shouldn’t be the case.
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