Chest Implant Gives Child Relief from Hundreds of Daily Seizures
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/25/2015

Brittany Brown has watched her daughter, Amaree, 6, struggle with hundreds of
seizures every day for the past six years. Daniel Arndt, MD, Beaumont
Children's Hospital section head, collaborated with Karol Zakalik, MD,
pediatric neurosurgeon, who placed an AspireSR implant in Amaree’s chest. The
device detects heart rate changes which often spike before seizures. An
electrical impulse stimulates the vagus nerve when those changes occur. The
impulse can prevent or reduce the strength of the seizure.

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Link:
AspireSR
http://www.aspiresr.com