About SVAN

SVAN began with a simple, Question: Why is the fastest route to life-saving drugs in an emergency also the most underused?

Intraosseous access (IO) delivers emergency drugs straight into the bloodstream through bone, in less than a minute, when a vein cannot be found.

It works across every age group, from preterm neonates to adults, and in critically injured patients it succeeds roughly twice as often as an IV line.

Yet it stays underused, due to gaps in the right equipment (age & weight-specific), lack of training, and clinicians' confidence to reach for it.

Intraosseous access (IO) delivers emergency drugs straight into the bloodstream through bone, in less than a minute, when a vein cannot be found.

It works across every age group, from preterm neonates to adults, and in critically injured patients it succeeds roughly twice as often as an IV line.

Yet it stays underused, due to gaps in the right equipment (age & weight-specific), lack of training, and clinicians' confidence to reach for it.

Intraosseous access (IO) delivers emergency drugs straight into the bloodstream through bone, in less than a minute, when a vein cannot be found.

It works across every age group, from preterm neonates to adults, and in critically injured patients it succeeds roughly twice as often as an IV line.

Yet it stays underused, due to gaps in the right equipment (age & weight-specific), lack of training, and clinicians' confidence to reach for it.

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Clinicians and engineers, solving a problem they've lived

Our founders Dr.Dr. Gunpreet Coudert Oberoi, Ing. Ewald Unger and DDr. Eva Schwindt from the Medical University of Vienna have developed an auto-stop bone sensor for high-risk bone drilling where over penetration can be a risk.

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