How This Device Safely Removes Blood Clots | Tech Insider

The MegaVac Mechanical Thrombectomy System by Capture Vascular is a device that removes blood clots quickly and successfully. 

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Following is the transcript of the video:

This device removes large blood clots. It's the MegaVac Mechanical Thrombectomy System by Capture Vascular. Large blood clots are especially dangerous. During removal, chunks can break apart and clog smaller arteries downstream. But the MegaVac may offer a safer way.

The key? A wire is inserted through the blockage. It can then deploy, expand, and pull back the blockage.

Dr. Chambers: If you don't take the blood clots out and you put a stent in you oftentimes break up the particles and they go downstream and plug up the little tiny vessels called distal embolization and you don't want that to happen. So the MegaVac has been very successful in preventing that from happening at least in our hands. 

Here's how it works.

When a large amount of thrombus, or blood clot forms the MegaVac is guided through the artery to the clot. It then expands. By expanding, it temporarily blocks blood flow in that artery.

This prevents blood from pushing chunks of the clot downstream. Those chunks could damage the artery even more.

It can also help doctors remove more of the clot.

Dr. Chambers: The MegaVac is a better device because it allows more thrombus removal and it prevents forward flow in the artery so no blood clot goes downstream to plug up the little tiny vessels. And the net effect is that you remove a large amount of thrombus quickly and successfully.

The benefits?

It may help prevent permanent heart damage and reduce the severity of a heart attack. It may even stop it completely depending on how soon the clot is removed.

The MegaVac is commercially available and FDA approved.

How This Device Safely Removes Blood Clots | Tech Insider

[lildelirddimention]

It's really incredible, the things that medical science can do these days !! Twenty years ago thousands of lives could have been saved through these techniques!! AMAZING !!!

[dadudidedo]

It looks easy and clean in animation but it would be really scary if you watch it in reality

[vijayisvar]

Wow this is so incredible. Gratitude to all those doctors and researchers who made this possible.

[ItsMeFern]

Dude that's honestly incredible! Man, it's too bad that people don't focus on amazing things like this more!

[ShadowFire]

The engineer who designed this is a genius.

[bobwang]

Great technology! Hope this will be put into usage all around the world!

[stephenkenney]

Technological advancement never ceases to amaze me.

[ClipCritics]

The clot shot will make this a big business.

[ssortedsceness]

My father had a myocardial infarction and got an angioplasty. Sadly, the infarcts went upto his brain in the occipital lobes and caused him to lose a substantial amount of his eyesight in both eyes. I wish this was there during his procedure.

[mindful_wander]

Whoa, this is crazy cool. I've had a clot in my leg and so I was given blood thinners to keep the clot in place and prevent further build-up while my body naturally broke down the clot (I made a video about my experience as a 20-something with a blood clot on my channel). I'm assuming this device would be used if the clot was in a more vital area of the body such as the heart or lung, is that correct?

[inshapedave]

I'm not sure what was used on me but this sounds about right. They poke a hole through my right wrist and stuck this long thing down my wrist all the way to my heart to clean my arteries. I was awake the whole procedure. Before I knew it, 2 hours went by just like that. 👍

[jewelphoenix]

Brilliant technological development. Thank you scientists and medical personnel for all that you do.

[williamgustafsson]

This channel really is Tech Insider! I love to see how fast and successful we humans evolving nowadays!

[TheGrtPlays]

All that expanding and moving within veins or passageways raises questions like will certain ages be affected more severe from this? Can older bodies handle this proceedure? And is the shown animation going to work for every bloodclot?

[ProPlayer-wqnu]

I thought the thumbnail was something else...

[MyTundra]

I had this used on my second DVT surgery a few days ago. Yes, second. My first had to be stopped early due to blood loss, and was on the 16th of September. My insertion site, was behind my knee, and that is *VERY* painful.

Must be a huge demand for this procedure now. Good old mandates. 💕

[elizabethh]

Amazing work! Much appreciation and thanks to all medical doctors, engineers, researchers etc for this. Hope this device can be distributed all around the world.

[pinley]

As much as I want to be excited with such finding, I believe only rich people can afford such procedure.

[johnshields]

My dad had a massive heart attack that killed him at 62 years old, never had any problems, although he wouldn't have gone to the hospital, I'm the same way, I'm 62 now, seeing this thing in action is amazing, I imagine I already have partial blockages, but just like dad I probably won't go to the hospital.