Vitor Mendes Pereira at Toronto Western Hospital and Krembil Brain Institute .used a Siemens Healthineers-developed robot arm to help remove an aneurysm. A catheter was guided to the patient’s brain from an incision made near the groin in the interventional procedure.
The CorPath GRX robotics platform is controlled by joysticks and a touchscreen. A bedside technician interacts with the robot to exchange devices including guidewires, microcatheters, and coils.
The goal is the use of robots for remote stroke patient treatment.
Join ApplySci at the 12th Wearable Tech + Digital Health + Neurotech conference on February 11-12, 2020 at Quadrus Sand Hill Road. Speakers include: Zhenan Bao, Stanford – Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures – Mark Chevillet, Facebook – Shahin Farshchi, Lux Capital – Carla Pugh, Stanford – Nathan Intrator, Tel Aviv University | Neurosteer – Wei Gao, Caltech – Sergiu Pasca, Stanford – Rudy Tanzi, Harvard – Sheng Xu, UC San Diego – Dror Ben-Zeev, University of Washington – Mikael Eliasson, Roche