“Wow, that’s new!” I thought, as my face rebounded off my friend’s boxing glove. To be clear, the glove wasn’t new. It was quite old, having gone through many bouts and few washings, and therefore was possessed of a smell that made strong men buckle, and reduced the weak to tears and pleas for olfactory mercy. Either that or he packed his gloves with dead rats before each match as a psychological ploy.

So the glove wasn’t unexpected. The way my neck moved as it rebounded definitely was. That’s been a couple months now. I’ve had a chiropractor put it back in place twice, and I stretch it regularly, but it still wakes me up at night. Like last night. But experiences are the Sugar and Spice of life, right?

So this strangely sanguine cervical saga shows something salient…

An ounce of prevention truly is worth a pound of cure.

But in the medical world, we get so little opportunity to act on Franklin’s pound of wisdom. Why? Because patients don’t come to us unless they have a problem. In other words, by the time they get in the ambulance, prevention has long since been in the rearview mirror.

This exact issue has us working uphill to promote our surgical devices. Consider a CABG graft, for example. Traditionally, a surgeon palpates, feels a pulse, and decides that means the graft is patent. But there’s no way to know that by touch. Stenosis near the anastomosis increases blood velocity and can give a very “snappy” pulse feel. On the other hand, our devices use transit time flow measurement to give the surgeon the true volume flow inside the vessel while leaving it in its native state. This gives a truly useful predictor of graft patency. So TTFM provides a glimpse into the future.

Our devices help surgeons prevent early graft failure. And in the case of the graft that’s sustaining your heart, an ounce of prevention might be worth a ton of cure.

I’ve never glimpsed into the future while boxing. But that might be because it’s hard to see forward with your head on backwards. Anyway, click here to see the veritable crystal ball that our tech can provide for your surgeries.

Your patients need you.

I might need you too, if you know how to put my head back in place.

Thanks for reading,

               Transonic Systems, Inc.

                    The Measure of Better Results