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Thai stroke device wins awards in Geneva
The Nation


Watchara

A Thai inventor has won prizes from an international inventions exhibition recently in Switzerland.

BANGKOK: - New Innovation of Early Detected Ischemic Stroke Device Reach to Community invented by Watchara Kaewmahanin, a lecturer at Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Sciences of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at Naresuan University won a special prize on stage and Geneva bronze prize at the 41st International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.

Inventors from 45 countries across the world presented their inventions at the exhibition.

It was held between April 10-14 in Switzerland and Watchara was presented with the awards on April 12.

Previously, the device won the best invention award given at Inventor's Day, which is annual national event.

Ischemic stroke has killed and impaired many Thai people due to late detection of the disease, which can lead to damage in patients' brains.

The device can check constrictions of a patient's carotid artery, which carries blood to the brain. It can also evaluate risks of the disease, using the National Stroke Association Risk score, which is accepted internationally.

So, the Ischemic stroke risk evaluation and protection are conducted effectively, conveniently, quickly and cheaply. Its effectiveness and safety are equal to standard devices costing Bt2-3 million each that are used at big hospitals.

The innovation costs only Bt50,000-Bt70,000. It is light, portable and easy to use. It can evaluate and show the evaluation results quickly. Thus, the device helps ease a problem of medical specialist shortage as it shows the results that are easy to understand for medical workers at smaller hospitals. With the device, they can help people to a check at their home.


-- The Nation 2013-04-22

It all helps to make Thailand a better place to live if you fancy having a stroke, congratulations anyway!

Nice to see a Thai doing something of benefit to all.

Good stuff, praise where it's due.

Congratulations! let's now see how the Thai big business fat cats step up to the plate to invest in this young Thai innovator. Fat chance!

I hate to be a skeptic, but i dont think we will be seeing these in hospitals anytime soon. There is not much to skim off of 50-70k, its much easier to hid tea money in the 2-3 million baht devices

I wonder who will be awarded the patents??

Brava P. Watchara Kaewmahanin!

"Ischemic stroke has killed and impaired many Thai people due to late detection of the disease, which can lead to damage in patients' brains."

The stroke itself is not a 'disease', but the possible result of a disease, accident or unknown (30 - 40% !). Anyway as usual start with wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischemic_stroke#Ischemic )and follow the references or just yahoo/google a bit.

Well, this is a genuine invention. (Unlike many that are trumpeted in the news). Bravo. Well done.

Always remember, you must be worth more alive than dead, or your significant other will not be interested in getting you and the new invention together.

Congrats. I do hope that it finds its way into public use.

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

The prize list reads like the Special Olympics of "Inventors". Everyone seems to get a prize.

PRIZE OF THE YOUNG BUSINESS MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION (GJD) Given by Mr. Jérôme FAVOULET, President, to the company MOITIE MOITIE SCHAER, HERITIER & CIE, from Switzerland, for their fondue pot which allows three different types of fondue to be eaten at the same time

PRIZE OF THE MEHR-e-ALBORZ UNIVERSITY – I.R. OF IRAN given by Mr. Sajjad EBADI, Vice-President, to Mr. Marian CRUDU et alea, from Romania, for their composition and process for tanning bovine hides

PRIZES OF THE TAIPEI DELEGATION Given by Mr. Paul Wen-liang CHANG, representative of the Cultural and Economic Delegation of Taipei, to KIM Mi-ran, from Korea, for an apparatus for looking after the body and the hair

BTW, lost in the shuffle is

PRIZE OF THE MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH SCIENTISTS – MARS Given by Doctor WAN MANSHOL representing the Malaysian Association of Research Scientists

to Pisanu TOOCHINDA et alea, from Thailand, for their nano-capsules of active elements of plants.

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

I suggest you hold off on the enthusiastic endorsement until such time as the device undergoes clinical trials and is shown to actually work.

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

What are you on about?

Moaning about moaning farangs?

I hate to be a skeptic, but i dont think we will be seeing these in hospitals anytime soon. There is not much to skim off of 50-70k, its much easier to hid tea money in the 2-3 million baht devices

Sadly for some people this device has come too late to detect the brain ischaemia,

which can lead to impaired reasoning and to obsession with "tea money".

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

I suggest you hold off on the enthusiastic endorsement until such time as the device undergoes clinical trials and is shown to actually work.

even if it turns out that way you describe it is not bad.

research work is often dead end work without a final product. that is part of the process. in the next stage they will be better.

people use their creativity to do good things, research, make invention.

some just use their brain to bash other. not very good.

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

What are you on about?

Moaning about moaning farangs?

Post was'nt aimed at you just a general observation.

Nothing Personnel

I wonder who will be awarded the patents??

Probably not those who should get them

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

We'll have to see how this works out in trials but as others have said well done.

Are you suggesting moaning farangs are amongst the many good things coming out of Thailand?

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

We'll have to see how this works out in trials but as others have said well done.

Are you suggesting moaning farangs are amongst the many good things coming out of Thailand?

With tongue in cheek

congratulations!

so many good things coming out from Thailand, that is another thing to add to the list.

very good.

Care to name a few?

All the moaning Farangs

Still waiting for some of the many good things, that come out of Thailand, sunshine!

I read Thai Stroke Device in the headline & I was pretty sure I'd see something like this...

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/p480x480/302534_279429705405049_470613952_n.jpg

I read Thai Stroke Device in the headline & I was pretty sure I'd see something like this...

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/p480x480/302534_279429705405049_470613952_n.jpg

I knew it, before I opened it!

I read Thai Stroke Device in the headline & I was pretty sure I'd see something like this...

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/p480x480/302534_279429705405049_470613952_n.jpg

I knew it, before I opened it!

Haha I was waiting for that.....I think they should have added the word prevention in the headline.

The prize list reads like the Special Olympics of "Inventors". Everyone seems to get a prize.

PRIZE OF THE YOUNG BUSINESS MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION (GJD) Given by Mr. Jérôme FAVOULET, President, to the company MOITIE MOITIE SCHAER, HERITIER & CIE, from Switzerland, for their fondue pot which allows three different types of fondue to be eaten at the same time

PRIZE OF THE MEHR-e-ALBORZ UNIVERSITY – I.R. OF IRAN given by Mr. Sajjad EBADI, Vice-President, to Mr. Marian CRUDU et alea, from Romania, for their composition and process for tanning bovine hides

PRIZES OF THE TAIPEI DELEGATION Given by Mr. Paul Wen-liang CHANG, representative of the Cultural and Economic Delegation of Taipei, to KIM Mi-ran, from Korea, for an apparatus for looking after the body and the hair

BTW, lost in the shuffle is

PRIZE OF THE MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH SCIENTISTS – MARS Given by Doctor WAN MANSHOL representing the Malaysian Association of Research Scientists

to Pisanu TOOCHINDA et alea, from Thailand, for their nano-capsules of active elements of plants.

You cannot even be positive about this young Thais invention not to mention anything else. You're just a moaning, and from your admission wealthy, clown frequently making inane comments.

Amongst all the bickering in the topic .....

Well done on the invention Congratulations.