Technologies

Applications of designed technologies include two products – Heart Sense and Heart Guard.

Heart Sense

Heart Sense is an innovative probe designed to significantly increase safety during cardiac surgery. The main function of the Heart Sense probe is to collect an electrical signal directly from the surface of the heart. This informs the team performing the operation about an increased risk of a critical event, especially a heart attack, in real time, allowing them to take pre-emptive actions and optimize procedures. 

The Heart Sense probe is for use primarily during coronary artery bypass surgery (for ischemic heart disease, coronary thrombosis, and coronary atherosclerosis) without the use of extracorporeal circulation, i.e. on the beating heart. The Heart Sense device can complement the functions of all cardiac stabilizers available on the market (Medtronic, Maquet, Terumo, etc.). The Heart Sense system does not require any modifications of the structure or use of cardiac stabilizers. When it is attached to the heart stabilizer (even in one package), Heart Sense extends the functions of the stabilizer through the option to monitor heart rate. 

More: www.heartsense.pl 

Heart Guard

The Heart Guard technology is a system for continual measurement of cardiac metabolism. Heart Guard is designed to support controlled cardiac arrest (cardioplegic arrest) during heart surgery. Heart Guard has the potential to reduce mortality and the rate of severe complications resulting from a suboptimal cardioplegia effect on the cellular level. 

In current clinical practice, cardioplegic protection of an arrested heart is beyond our control. In some patients, severe heart failure is observed soon after restoring physiological blood flow through the heart. This complication occurs when the metabolism of the cells has not been completely stopped by cardioplegia. Even when the heart seems completely arrested, cell metabolism may be still active. Active cells require oxygen, but oxygen delivery has been halted. This results in anaerobic metabolism and ultimately the death of the cells. Anaerobic metabolism can be measured by the change in tissue acidosis. A significant decrease in the pH of an arrested heart is a risk factor for death and severe complications after cardiac surgery.

More: www.heartguard.pl