Spark Biomedical Creates Innovative New Tourniquet with Surgeon
Last year Spark Biomedical and Jared Huston, a trauma surgeon in New York, created what they called a "neural tourniquet". The treatment boosts platelet activity—cell fragments responsible for blood clotting—according to preliminary findings presented at the 2024 Society for Neuroscience conference. This treatment involves sending electrical pulses to the spleen, which stores about one-third of the body’s platelets. The stimulation encourages the spleen to ready platelets to form a clot. 
Spark Biomedical Creates Innovative New Tourniquet with Surgeon