Article preview from Start-Up - July 1, 2011
Just as nuclear submarines employ pressure waves to track objects in the sea, the Nautilus NeuroWave from Jan Medical Inc. uses the same technology to detect expansions and contractions of the skull caused by an increase or decrease in the amount of blood in the vascular system within the skull. These pressure waves will be used to quickly determine the type, location and size of stroke that a patient is experiencing.
Article preview from Start-Up - July 1, 2011
Just as nuclear submarines employ pressure waves to passively avoid, track, or target objects in the sea, the Nautilus NeuroWave from Jan Medical Inc. uses the same technology to detect expansions and contractions of the skull caused by an increase or decrease in the amount of blood in the vascular system within the skull. These pressure waves will be used to quickly determine the type, location and size of stroke that a patient is experiencing.
"During the systolic cycle as blood is pumped into a vessel, it expands the vessel, which puts a very, very small pulse wave through the tissue of the brain," explains company founder, president and CEO Paul Lovoi. "That pulse wave impacts the skull and actually moves the skull."
The device, which continuously monitors movement of the skull, is named after both the fictitious submarine Nautilus from Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the USS Nautilus, the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, which was launched in 1954.
Jan Medical was named in memory of Jan Lovoi, Paul's wife of 26 years who died suddenly in 2003 at the age of 55 from a hemorrhagic stroke. Although the initial applications of the portable Nautilus NeuroWave are for stroke triage in the ER and for monitoring stroke victims in the neurocritical care unit, "eventually it could be an aneurysm screening and monitoring device," Paul Lovoi says. "If there had been a screening product available back then, life-saving intervention would have been possible for my wife."
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