ThermopeutiX Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Patients afflicted with acute stroke may soon have their brain protected from reduced cerebral blood flow by being induced with selective hypothermia, as opposed to being subjected to systemic cooling, which lowers the entire body's temperature, but may stop the heart in the process. ThermopeutiX Inc.'s DuoFlo is a dual-lumen catheter system that removes warm blood from the body through one lumen and delivers cold blood to the brain through a second lumen. The novel technology is designed to be used primarily by interventional cardiologists and interventional radiologists -- rather than neurologists -- to treat not only stroke, but cardiac arrest and trauma as well.