{"id":211356,"date":"2025-04-14T05:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-small-sensor-could-make-huge-impacts-on-brain-injury-treatment"},"modified":"2025-04-14T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:03:15","slug":"this-small-sensor-could-make-huge-impacts-on-brain-injury-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-small-sensor-could-make-huge-impacts-on-brain-injury-treatment","title":{"rendered":"This Small Sensor Could Make Huge Impacts on Brain Injury Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86OHbnMptDc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurgery means extensive recovery time and can significantly impact patient health. Our system doesn\u2019t require surgery because we use a conventional stent, the catheter, as a delivery vehicle,\u201d said W. Hong Yeo, the Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor and an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Made from ultra-thin, flexible silicone, these nanosensors can be embedded in almost anything, from pacifiers to catheters. But size was just one element the researchers needed to consider when developing this device; accuracy was just as important.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hong Yeo holds an in-stent nanomembrane sensor that can detect intracranial pressure.<\/p>\n<p>A car accident, football game, or even a bad fall can lead to a serious or fatal head injury. Annually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/cbir\/silentepidemic.html\" target=\"_blank\">traumatic brain injuries<\/a> (TBI) cause half a million permanent disabilities and 50,000 deaths. Monitoring pressure inside the skull is key to treating TBI and preventing long-lasting complications.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these monitoring devices are large and invasive, requiring surgical emplacement. But Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a sensor smaller than a dime. The miniature size offers huge benefits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-small-sensor-could-make-huge-impacts-on-brain-injury-treatment\">Continue reading \u201cThis Small Sensor Could Make Huge Impacts on Brain Injury Treatment\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSurgery means extensive recovery time and can significantly impact patient health. Our system doesn\u2019t require surgery because we use a conventional stent, the catheter, as a delivery vehicle,\u201d said W. Hong Yeo, the Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor and an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Made from ultra-thin, flexible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}