SUMMIT, NJ — A new preventive procedure that is more accessible to seniors is now offered at Atlantic Health System’s Overlook Medical Center, helping patients to reduce the risk of stroke.

The procedure is known as transcarotid artery revascularization, or TCAR, and is a minimally invasive operation that uses a stent to open up and reduce blockage of the main artery in the neck. The surgery leaves about a 1-inch wide incision near the collarbone. “They stay in the hospital one night and they go home the next day,” said Dr. Scott Sundick in an Oct. 20 interview. He has performed the procedure seven times since it was implemented at Overlook three months ago.
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The procedure, which can be done while the patient is awake or sedated, was developed by Silk Road Medical, a California-based company that worked with the vascular surgery community for 10 years to design the operation.

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SUMMIT, NJ — Atlantic Health System’s Overlook Medical Center is the first hospital in New Jersey to offer an innovative new treatment for patients at risk for stroke due to blockages in the neck arteries, a condition known as carotid artery disease.

The minimally invasive procedure, called TransCarotid Artery Revascularization or TCAR, utilizes a new FDA-approved neuroprotection system that temporarily reverses blood flow in the artery during the procedure. Dangerous bits of plaque and blood clots that could dislodge and otherwise travel to the brain and cause a stroke are safely diverted away while a dedicated transcarotid stent is inserted to open and stabilize the blockage.
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A company based in California, Silk Road Medical, has worked for more than 10 years with the vascular surgery community to developing the TCAR procedure.  

Read More: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/health-and-wellness/articles/overlook-first-in-nj-to-offer-carotid-artery-stro-7

If we hope to be successful in a rapidly changing health care environment, dialysis providers can't afford to maintain the status quo. "Successful" doesn't just refer to financial stability; it also means providing good quality care for our patients. 
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In late 2015, we learned about dialysis machine manufacturer Outset Medical through one of their employees that had worked for us. Outset asked us to assist them as they developed a few of the components of a new hemodialysis system called Tabla. Their technology looked like the kind of tool we could use to advance our transitional care idea. 

In early 2016 the Dialysis Center of Lincoln began trialing the Tabla at one of our units; after a number of months, we decided to expand the program into three of our dialysis clinics. We currently have 12 Tablas in use. 

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Silk Road Medical, Inc., a company dedicated to preventing the devastating burden of stroke through surgical innovation, announces the appointment of Tammy Leitsinger to the position of Vice President, Medial Affairs and Professional Education. In this new role, Tammy will further develop and refine global, peer-to-peer TCAR training pathways and innovative educational programs.

Prior to joining Silk Road Medical, Tammy was Vice President, Global Clinical Solutions, Cordis Corporation, Cardinal Health and has over 25 years of clinical education and global market development in the endovascular, cardiovascular, neurovascular and endoscopy arenas and has a profound understanding of carotid revascularization via transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TF-CAS).  

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In their own way, these 3 digital health tools streamline processes to improve efficiency—something we need much more of in healthcare.

Klue: Making it easier to track consumption

One of eleven hot tech start-ups to make their debut at this year’s LAUNCH! at Health 2.0’s annual conference in Santa Clara, Klue is offering a new tool in our endless battle to get to the weight we want. It’s a wearable with a twist. Instead of counting steps, they are counting various types of hand movements that they say correlate with different types of eating and drinking behaviors.

Embedded in an off-the-shelf wearable, Klue’s patent-pending software tracks how often users make hand-to-mouth movements. Not only that, but it can also discriminate between eating and drinking behaviors. CEO and Co-founder Katelijn Vleugels, says, “Klue is deceptively simple, but also very promising.”

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TCAR is a new procedure, only available in 50 hospitals across the United States, that helps prevent strokes in high-risk patients. Dr. Brad Thomas is a vascular surgeon with Surgical Care Associates at Baptist Health Louisville. 

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