First live demonstration of ScanNav AnatomyGuide to clinicians
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Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc announced that the firstlive demonstration of the group’s ScanNav AnatomyGuide AI software toclinicians will take place at the Annual Scientific Meeting of RegionalAnaesthesia United Kingdom (RA-UK) in Belfast from 16-17 May 2019.
RA-UK’s Annual Scientific Meeting brings together a widerange of clinical experts, medical professionals and trainee anaesthetists fora mixture of workshops, clinical based lectures, and a new ‘How I do it’ expertclinical symposia focussed on real-life clinical scenarios and live scanningdemonstrations.
As part of this new format, Dr. David Burkett St Laurent, consultantanaesthetist at the Royal Gwent Hospital Newport (Wales), will be performinglive demonstrations using the Group’s ScanNav AnatomyGuide AI software, whichidentifies and highlights anatomical structures on a live ultrasound image.
The product is being developed for use during PeripheralNerve Block (PNB) procedures to support less experienced practitioners. PNB isa form of regional anaesthesia that can be used for certain surgical proceduresas an alternative to general anaesthesia and also as a form of pain relief(potentially reducing the need for opioid analgesia). The demonstration willfocus on two of these nerve blocks; the adductor canal block (in the thigharea) and the fascia iliaca block (in the pelvis/hip area).
The ScanNav AnatomyGuide AI software is the second AIenabled product being developed within the group’s clinical division and iscurrently pre-regulatory approval. The group commenced a clinical study withinthe Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in November last year to gatherclinical data for the product, and it is expected that the ScanNav AnatomyGuidedevelopment will be substantially completed in 2019 and that the regulatoryapproval process for its sale in Europe and the United States will commencethereafter. ScanNav AnatomyGuide's development has been partly funded byInnovate UK.
It is anticipated that ScanNav AnatomyGuide for PNB will besold into hospitals through the ultrasound OEMs and that further ultrasoundguided needling variants of the software will be developed.
Commenting, Nicholas Sleep, CTO of Intelligent Ultrasound,said: “The benefits of regional anaesthesia to patients and to the healthservice generally are well known. We believe that ScanNav AnatomyGuide willprovide additional confidence for practitioners with less experience inultrasound guided regional anaesthesia, reduce their reliance on more seniorcolleagues, and allow a greater number of patients to benefit from PNBprocedures.”
