How about a device that helps prevent common heart ailments leading to strokes? Precaution is better than cure; it’s well said, therefore when millions of people around the globe fall victim to artial fibrillation, with about 2 million in America alone, it was time to think beyond the drugs – and thus Watchman came into experimental phase.
How Watchman foils the obvious
Strokes caused by clotting in the arteries are catered to by anti-clotting drugs, but administering the rite dose is often very painstaking, therefore fabric coated metal device the Watchman implanted into the artery through a angiographic type surgery from the leg to plug the clot is definitely a better proposition. The device has been practically tested, though most of the results have been in its favor; there have been some complications and failures too. But that’s natural with all new inventions and finding therefore, like the medics backing the device we too can take a heart from the better results.
Via: SFGate
