{"id":219133,"date":"2025-07-31T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/childhood-strokes-are-rare-so-treating-them-takes-an-exceptional-set-of-skills"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:03:17","slug":"childhood-strokes-are-rare-so-treating-them-takes-an-exceptional-set-of-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/childhood-strokes-are-rare-so-treating-them-takes-an-exceptional-set-of-skills","title":{"rendered":"Childhood strokes are rare, so treating them takes an exceptional set of skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/childhood-strokes-are-rare-so-treating-them-takes-an-exceptional-set-of-skills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a true aspiration catheter, but it can work,\u201d says Sillero. \u201cWe have to be careful because the groin is very small at this age \u2014 you have to really think outside the box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neurosurgical procedures are especially challenging when operating on kids under two, he explains, partly because medical supply companies don\u2019t make miniature versions of devices such as catheters, since paediatric stroke and aneurysm (a bulge in a blood vessel) are so rare.<\/p>\n<p>Sillero has overcome such challenges not only through improvisation, but thanks to <i>Children\u2019s Health<\/i>\u2019s innovative model for diagnosis and treatment, which encourages close collaboration between different specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a true aspiration catheter, but it can work,\u201d says Sillero. \u201cWe have to be careful because the groin is very small at this age \u2014 you have to really think outside the box.\u201d Neurosurgical procedures are especially challenging when operating on kids under two, he explains, partly because medical supply companies don\u2019t make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219133","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}