Jean Bismuth, MD, the University of South Florida Health and Tampa General Hospital chief of vascular surgery, talks to Vascular Specialist about the evolving nature of vascular surgery through the prism of acute limb ischemia (ALI) and how clinical care guidelines lag behind the rapidly developing endovascular technology, now available to treat the condition.
Discussing the role of Penumbra’s Lightning BoltTM 7 aspiration thrombectomy system, Bismuth points to data from the STRIDE study to underscore advances in patient outcomes.
“Today, what we have on the market is a game-changer,” he notes. “We started with some smaller catheters and then went to Lightning 7, which gives a little bit better aspiration technology—finally going to Bolt, which is really a game-changer because, in a shorter period of time, we can aspirate the same amount of clot and get the legs reperfused faster.”
This video is sponsored by Penumbra, Inc.
