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The Drill that knows When to Stop.
SVAN builds auto-stop drills for high-risk bone drilling. They sense the moment to halt and stop before damage is done. We start where the stakes are highest: SVAN QuickAccess, the safest intraosseous (IO) access platform for every patient, from 500 g preterm neonates to adults.
The Problem
When the vein fails, the only way in is through bone.
Today, when intravenous accessto drugs fails or is not availabe during resuscitation, clinicians reach the bloodstream through bone. But the powered drills to do it were designed for adults and used off-label on newborns and infants, the patients least able to withstand a millimetre too far. Nearly half of first attempts fail in preterm neonates and infants, and when a drill goes a mm too deep the consequences are extravasation, fracture, necrosis and even amputation of the leg. No CE-marked or FDA-cleared powered IO device exists for patients under 3 kg.
~158,000
newborns a year managed with tools never designed for them.
44–51%
first-attempt success with existing devices in neonates.
