The MIT of Massachusetts awards Spanish doctors for their research in patients in coma

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The MIT of Massachusetts awards Spanish doctors for their research in patients in coma



The Valdecilla Hospital (Cantabria) monitors the neuronal activity of patients in coma with brain damage through a single technological device



  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has awarded the Hospital Valdecilla for a project to monitor the neuronal activity of patients in coma with brain damage through a single technological device.

This project is one of fifteen works chosen by the famous American institute and has incorporated it into its innovation programs.

The study led by the head of the Valdecilla Clinical Neurophysiology Service, José Luis Fernández Torre, and the assistant doctor of the Internal Medicine Service Miguel Ángel Hernández-Hernández, will enjoy six months of training and mentoring of their projects by professors from the MIT and other international centers.

The project, carried out with the Cajal Institute, the CSIC and the MicroLiquid company, aims to develop a single intercerebral sensor that allows monitoring patients in coma with acute brain damage (infarction, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage and severe head trauma).

Two years of research

Dr. Torre and his assistants began two years ago with an intracerebral electroencephalographic monitoring program in these patients, unique in Europe. In fact, according to the regional government, the records that have been carried out so far are only made at Columbia University, in New York.

This group has been focusing its work on the diagnosis of non-convulsive epileptic seizures in patients with brain damage, coma, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy or brain death.

They have recently obtained another recognition by including their work as references in the electroencephalography guide of the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, published in August 2016.

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