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Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS)

Hands-on training for image-guided interventional treatment of acute ischemic stroke

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Latest Release
February 12, 2025

New and updated cases

  • 4 new Flow diversion cases with more complex and challenging aneurysms to allow for more advanced training
  • Added full guidance for one AIS case, to learn the basic steps and to allow for unproctored training
  • 2 new larger and more complex AVMs to allow for more advanced training, handling multiple feeders and reflux
  • Updated and refined anatomies, including adding ophthalmic arteries where previously missing, to improve the fidelity of the challenges presented during cerebral navigation

New features and improvements

  • Ready for case rehearsal of flow diversion cases planned using Ankyras validated planning platform
  • A completely new and more realistic model for flow diverters enabling flow diversion in more complex and challenging anatomies, improving thefidelity of the training
  • Foreshortening based on Ankyras’ validated algorithm to align training with planning and to better understand the complexity of flow diverters
  • Increased visibility of embolic agent for increased realism and better training
  • Updated portfolio of intracranial stents to better represent the real devices used
  • New look and feel to improve usability
  • Automatic calibration for measurements and possibility to zoom when roadmaps are used to better align with the features found in the angio suite
  • Switched position of frontal and lateral planes to align with the most common setup in the angio suite
  • High-resolution forces on latest generation of G7 for improved realism and for the operator to better appreciate and understand the nuances of the friction forces during neuro intervention
  • Ready for automatic updates to speed-up and facilitate more frequent updates of the solution, to always be updated with the latest version
  • Onlinebug and feedback reporting available

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This learning module is designed for:
Interventional Neuroradiologists - residents, fellows and procoring interventionalists

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NV Connect training cases are designed to learn skills essential to cerebral interventional procedures. The module facilitates technical, procedural, and cognitive training and discussions in a risk-free environment for these delicate procedures.

The training cases offer the opportunity to train on a range of neuro-interventional procedures, from the carotid artery and intracranial stenting to thrombectomy and aneurysm treatments (using flow diversion and coiling).

All cases provide all trainees—from beginners to advanced operators—with a risk-free opportunity to perfect both basic navigation skills and procedure-related specific skills and prepare well for the real intervention. NV Connect also allows trainers to set specific training targets, depending on the audience, by setting up benchmarks for each case or using the predefined benchmarks that come with the cases.

The AIS cases teach specific skills for treating neurovascular thrombectomy, focusing on the basic steps of aortic and supra-aortic access, direct aspiration, and mechanical thrombectomy using retrievers and a combined technique.

Features & Benefits

Key Benefits

Procedural planning based on patient scenarios

Learn the procedural steps for supra-aortic access and cerebral angiography, including 3DRA

Acquire pertinent technical and manipulation skills

Safely access and navigate the cerebral vasculature

Assess the location of the occlusion, as well as the tortuosities of the access path, using angiograms

Treat the occlusion using direct aspiration, stentriever and combined technique

Features & Benefits
  • Ability to use real clinical devices
  • Stent retrievers and aspiration catheters included
  • Type 1, 2, 3 arch and bicarotid aortic takeoff variations
  • Advanced imaging with biplane C-arm, DSA, shutters,
  • 3D overlay and 3DRA
  • Various intra- and extracranial anatomy variation with different difficulty
  • Didactic aspiration visualization
  • Record and export cine loops for review and debriefing
Training Objectives
  • Perform a safe carotid access in difficult aortic arch variations
  • Perform aspiration through collection of thrombus at tip of catheter and understanding the flow feedback through catheter (ADAPT)
  • Learn a safe technique (under aspiration, single motion) to withdraw a stentriever
  • Manage carotid artery stenosis considering distal thrombus
  • Navigate a tortuous carotid artery and understand haptic feedback on aspiration catheter
  • Manage complications such as dissections, spasms and distal migration

Workflow

Step 1

Flow Diverter Case planning in Ankyras®

Mentice: Flow Diverter planning in Ankyras
Step 2

Import Case directly into VIST® simulator

Mentice: VIST G7 Virtual Reality Simulation
Step 3

Practice deployment in patient-specific anatomy

Mentice: Wire navigation and flow diverter overlay from Ankyras

Case Layout

6 interactive cases in initial version:
  • 301: Type I aorta, Occlusion at right terminal ICA - Fully guided case
  • 302: Type I aorta, Occlusion at left MCA (M1)
  • 303: Type III aorta, Occlusion at right MCA (M2)
  • 304: Type I aorta, Occlusion of BA
  • 305: Bovine aorta, Occlusion at left MCA (M2) and proximal ICA
  • 306: Type II aorta, Occlusion at right MCA (M1)
  • 307: Type I aorta, Occlusion at right terminal ICA
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Disclaimer & Regulatory Information

VIST® Ankyras® Flow Diverter Rehearsal is a training solution not intended for clinical use or decision making. Ankyras® is a medical device manufactured by Mentice Spain S.L. Mentice Spain S.L. is ISO 13485 certified. Ankyras® complies with the EU Medical Device Regulation (EU CE Mark, MDR 784032). ANKYRAS® is a medical software intended to assist healthcare professionals in the selection of a proper braided device for treatment of intracranial aneurysms. ANKYRAS® is intended for exclusive use by professional users.