BEFORE
Is the brain ready for surgery?
Cognitive baseline
Brain protection.
For every patient.
Anesthesia has never monitored
the one organ it acts on.
Today, we monitor the body.
Not the brain.
1 in 3
patients experience delirium or cognitive decline after surgery (Over 65)
Anesthesiology 2018 | Gen Intern Med 2018
What if we monitored
the brain?
DURING
The right amount of medication.
Anesthesia depth
AFTER
Is the brain ready to go home?
Recovery confirmed
How our technology works
The brain's signal changes direction
during anesthesia.
Awake, information flows from the front of the brain toward the back. Under sedation, that flow reverses.
KBO measures that flow directly. Eight channels, front and back, in real time. Competitors read a small patch of forehead, so they only see what happens at the front of the brain and only work in the OR. Reading front to back works in a dental chair, a procedure room, the ICU, and the OR.
AwakeFront to back
SedatedBack to frontFive reasons KBO
is different.
01
Superior technology
Direction, not a forehead index.
02
Cognitive health and delirium
Baseline before surgery, recovery confirmed after.
03
5x the clinical applications
Dental, OMFS, procedural, OR, ICU.
04
Reimbursable by insurance
A CPT pathway, once cleared.
05
Built by anesthesia providers
Designed with the UC Davis anesthesiology team.
Existing monitors
4 channels, forehead only
Limited view of brain activity.
KBO
8 channels, front and back
Measures the directional shift.
You cannot measure front-to-back direction from the front alone.
One headband.
Three generations.
510(k) pathway
EEG
Eight channels, front and back. Measures the directional shift.
Future generation
AI
Pattern recognition across anesthetic agents and cases.
Future generation, De Novo pathway
Auditory
An evolved response that probes the brain directly.
Our prototype.
In testing at UC Davis.
Actual photo of prototype testing.