Nuro announced a new clinical milestone with its third-generation neural operating system, NUOS 3.
The company reports that NUOS 3 can enable patients who have been declared clinically dead — at times for over 30 minutes — and later resuscitated to regain the ability to communicate. Despite complete entrapment and often suffering severe diffuse brain injuries, Nuro says its technology restores communication ability.
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According to a news release, the individuals that can benefit from the technology were previously considered unreachable. However, they can now express intent and thoughts through the non-surgical NUOS 3 neurotechnology. This could aid patients in complex locked-instates caused by trauma, stroke, pharmatoxicology events, operative failures or deadly infections.
NUOS 3, a portable, wireless, lightweight system requires no surgery or implants. It can work at the bedside or in the home, delivering intuitive and immediate communication and control of computing. The system uses neurological signal analysis to enable communication.
According to Nuro, a woman in Boston with severe brain damage was able to use NUOS 3 to communicate with her family. The Canada-based company says its breakthrough paves the way for wider adoption in a range of locations. Those include emergency rooms, critical care units, palliative care units, rehabilitation centres and home settings.
“This is not science fiction. These are real patients, real families and real recoveries,” said Francois Gand, founder and CEO of Nuro. “NUOS 3 is enabling access to consciousness where even the most advanced medical systems believed there was none and the recommendation by clinicians was to end life support.”
