Innovative Stroke Device Receives FDA Clearance

Penumbra, Inc. is a medical device company that had it’s tiny device fast-tracked through the medical trial process by the Federal Gov’t and hopefully it saves a lot of lives that hang in the balance where a one minute delay could mean life or death.

It’s a tiny vacuum cleaner for the brain: A new treatment for stroke victims that promises to suction out clogged arteries in hopes of stopping the brain attack before it does permanent harm.

Here’s the catch -unclogging sometimes does more harm than good in strokes. When the dam is broken and blood rushes into oxygen-deprived brain tissue, it sometimes triggers swelling or a brain hemorrhage. Either can kill.

Read all the details in this medical article.