"T-stat is a tremendous adjunctive tool to

detect colon and pelvic ischemia during my aortic cases."

Dr. Eugene Lee
Vascular Surger
Sacramento VA Hospital and Univ. California (Davis) Med Center

"Using this tool has saved lives."

Dr. C. Neil Olcott
Vascular Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center

Reducing Post Aortic Repair Colon Ischemia Using T-Stat^®

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If you perform AAA repair, your patients may benefit from the recently-approved T-Stat® Ischemia Detection System. (1,2)

Between 1-3% of patients undergoing open or percutaneous aortic repair develop moderate to severe colon ischemia (up to 36% after ruptured aneurysm), and of these, many of these die before leaving the hospital. (3,4) Other reduced-perfusion surgical cases can also lead to colon ischemia, such as cardiac procedures.

T-Stat® is a catheter-based ischemia detection system that may improve AAA outcome by detecting the onset of colon ischemia in real time, before damage becomes irreversible.

In a controlled, independent study of 562 patients at Stanford University and University of California, patients with colon ischemia detected by T-Stat® had shorter ICU stays (29 vs. 2 days) and lower mortality (0% vs. 55%) than control patients with colon ischemia. (5)

In this study, T-Stat® changed outcome because the surgery team was alerted when a tissue became ischemic, and then had the opportunity to revascularize prior to infarction. (2,5). Patients with ischemia demonstrated colon saturation in the range of 0-11% (StO2%). This is substantially lower than normal colon saturation, as shown below:

Manage ischemia, starting now.™

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