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COBRA-OS™ is the world’s smallest REBOA device, allowing frontline personnel to save more lives by controlling patients’ bleeding in fewer steps with the potential to decrease complications
| Source: Front Line Medical Technologies
“Even with all the advances in medicine today, trauma patients are primarily still dying from blood loss – this is our chance to change that,” said Adam Power, practicing vascular surgeon and co-founder of Front Line Medical Technologies. “While REBOA continues to emerge as a life-saving procedure, we saw the need for a simple, fast, low-profile device to maximize its benefit and ultimately save more lives.”
REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta) is used in emergency situations when patients require hemodynamic support to maintain blood flow to the brain and heart, acting as a bridge to definitive care. COBRA-OS™ is the first 4 French REBOA device – the smallest on the market. Its significantly decreased size allows health care personnel to quickly and easily deploy COBRA-OS™, decreasing the time of the procedure and potentially improving patient outcomes.
This device can be used in multiple situations, including non-compressible torso hemorrhage in trauma, postpartum hemorrhage and gastrointestinal hemorrhage. While it has been primarily performed in-hospital, it is currently also being deployed in pre-hospital settings and military environments and being investigated for nontraumatic cardiac arrest.
“We have already seen great results, both from our pre-clinical and user validation studies,” said Asha Parekh, biomedical engineer, co-founder and CEO of Front Line Medical Technologies. “When it comes to blood loss, timing is crucial and while most REBOA procedures take about 10 minutes, the COBRA-OS™ has taken just over a minute in our studies. Our ultimate goal is to lower the barriers to REBOA use around the world and after three years of hard work behind the scenes, Health Canada approval is our first step in making that happen.”
For more information about Front Line Medical Technologies and to stay updated on the availability of the COBRA-OS™, please visit https://frontlinemedtech.com/.
About Front Line Medical Technologies, Inc.:
Front Line Medical Technologies is a medical device company lowering the barriers to bleeding control and resuscitation worldwide. The company offers a life-saving tool, the COBRA-OS™ (Control of Bleeding, Resuscitation, Arterial Occlusion System) to help patients survive emergency situations. The COBRA-OS is used for REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta) procedures, and its significantly reduced size decreases both the time it takes to complete the procedure and the risk of complications.
Contact:
Laurel Mengers
Uproar PR for Front Line Medical Technologies, Inc.
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