Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory have developed an artificial intelligence-guided ultrasound device to help physicians quickly deploy a catheter at a point of injury.
Following traumatic accidents, medical professionals often have to apply life-saving treatment to patients with severe internal bleeding. Delivering catheters into a central blood vessel to administer fluid or medication can be complex, the researchers said, and first responders like EMTs are not really trained to perform those types of procedures. Oftentimes, treatment can only be administered at the hospital.
The team of researchers, led by Laura Brattain and Brian Telfer from the Human Health and Performance Systems group, along with physicians from the Center for Ultrasound Research and Translation at Massachusetts General Hospital, developed a solution to the problem. Its AI-guided ultrasound interventions device (AI-GUIDE) is a handheld platform technology that could help physicians with training to quickly install a catheter into a common femoral vessel to enable the rapid treatment at the point of injury, according to the researchers.
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