nuroflux™
monitoring brain activity and blood flow
nuroflux™
monitoring brain activity and blood flow
Critical Need
- There is a stroke every 19 minutes in Australia
- Stroke costs Australia $6 billion annually
- CT perfusion scans do not provide continuous monitoring
- Standard care relies upon subjective observations
- For an oxygen-starved brain, every second counts
Our Story
When a loved one suffered multiple strokes in between CT scans, we were desperate to know why these strokes were not detected.
CT perfusion scans provide a snapshot in time but can only be performed once every 24 hours due to radiation exposure and they do not allow for continuous monitoring.
There is currently no device for the continuous monitoring of brain activity and blood flow.
nuroflux™ was born out of seeing how blind the situation can be.
This prompted a group of engineers to team up with clinicians and commercialisation experts to define, discover and deliver.
The Challenge
Stroke is a challenging blackbox that necessitates a cross-disciplinary approach. It brings together multiple fields of medicine (radiology, neurology, neurosurgery, pharmacology, geriatrics, rehabilitation) and engineering (design, electrical, mechanical, fluids, chemical, biomedical, software). The team also incorporates commercialisation and business expertise, ensuring that our research is effectively translated to maximise societal benefit on a global scale.
Our Goal & Vision
We set out to develop the world's first wearable to non-invasively monitor brain activity and blood flow alongside other vital activities relevant to stroke and stroke rehabilitation.
Our vision is to improve stroke patient care and help first-responders and clinicians access realtime objective insights and deep-learning in the area of stroke - and beyond.
Future Horizons
After speaking with a range of clinicians, it turns out there could be broad utility for our multi-modal wearable. Among the range of opportunities, there is interest in monitoring patients with conditions such as delirium where hypoperfusion is suspected to play a role. Indeed, the inverse has also been of great interest, with the cognitive benefits of improved brain perfusion well-documented. It is likely that nuroflux will find additional utility beyond medical applications.