StrokeHolder

Later, based on his personal experience and multiple peer studies and reports showing significant benefits of EVT interventions when done without general anesthesia, he had completely transformed his way of delivery of patient care by operating on awake patients, without general anesthesia.
However, this way of intervention always posed a significant challenge of achieving complete immobilization of the awake or sedated patient during the brain catheterization: acute brain attack more often makes the victim confused, aphasic, uncooperative even combative which could make procedure unsafe for the patient and the medical team, extend the procedure time and affect the chance of better outcome and recovery.
This ongoing problem had become Dr. Varoujan Kostanian’s quest to come up with a solution, to invent a device that can significantly improve/shorten the times of stroke patient evaluation and faster radiological diagnosis of stroke from the moment of the admission to the hospital.
Putting the stroke patient into the StrokeHolder FAST device immobilization after neurological exam confirms the suspicion of acute stroke will allow for prevention of possible falls, disruption of IV access, a rather quick arrival to CT scanner, and faster performance of the diagnostic exam. Later, when there is a need for further CT angiography and CT perfusion exam, leaving the patient immobilized in a StrokeHolder also will greatly improve the chance to get a good quality contrast CT exam by lowering the incidence of patient movement and artifacts induced image degradations. Further, when there is an indication of EVT, the patient would be transferred to the angiography table to stay immobilized for endovascular intervention.
Therefore, the use of StrokeHolderFAST will allow medical personnel to create a rather seamless process starting with brain imagining for stroke diagnosis, administration of IV thrombolytic therapy (if indicated), endovascular therapy, and post-procedure immobilization to avoid post-intervention bleeding at the arterial puncture site.