Strandbacka Medical
Revolutionizing the assessment of patients with abdominal pain
PERIsign: A revolutionizing diagnostic aid for the emergency department
Strandbacka Medical is developing PERIsign™. A revolutionizing diagnostic aid for the emergency department. Within minutes PERIsign evaluates patients with stomach pain and determine if they need further investigations, medical treatment or surgery or is safe to go home.
Diagnostic difficulties for one of the most common cause for ED visits
Acute abdominal pain (AAP) accounts for about 10 % of all Emergency Department (ED) visits worldwide. In the US and Europe combined, more than 23 million patients visits the ED due to acute abdominal pain.
1/4 misdiagnosed
Even in experienced hands, the manual palpation of patients leads to misdiagnosis in one forth of patients with abdominal pain.
1/3 Exposed to radiation
This leads to that more than one third of patients in the ER with abdominal pain is exposed to radiation. X-ray is expensive and time-consuming and increases the risk of developing cancer.
1/4 Unnecessary CT scans
Inexperience leads to overutilization of imaging techniques, and it is estimated that up to 25 % of all X-ray investigations are unnecessary.
The solution: PERIsign
PERIsign is novel medical device that aid the healthcare professional to make a fast, objective and correct assessment of patient with acute abdominal pain. As of now, these assessments are subjective, uncertain and highly dependent on the experience of the examiner.
Cost effective
PERIsign detects if the patient suffers of peritonitis – the physiological response to severe intraabdominal illness.
Convenient
PERIsign decreases the need of X-ray investigations and make the subjective, manual, investigation to an objective measurement. This increases ER throughput.