Spinal taps on infants are grueling for parents and medical teams. This startup may have a solution.
Providence-based SmolTap has a new device, almost like a cradle or seat, that positions and holds the infant in place during a lumbar puncture Robert Cooper painfully remembers watching a medical team ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — This week in 12 Health, Shannon Hegy spoke with the CEO of Smoltap, a company that makes a “positioning stabilizer” for infant spinal taps. Spinal tap procedures are used to ...
A simple combination of blood and urine tests may allow many infants with fevers (febrile) to safely avoid lumbar punctures (spinal taps), according to new findings from a major international study ...
The SMöLTAP device properly positions and stablizes the infant, elminating man of the variables associated with traditional spinal tap. The SMöLTAP infant stabilizer was conceptualized by two ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Spinal muscular atrophy affects the nerves that control muscle movement, leading to progressive weakening. As a result, infants ...
Spinal anaesthesia has emerged as a valuable alternative to general anaesthesia for preterm infants undergoing infra-umbilical and lower limb surgeries. By delivering local anaesthetic into the ...
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