Hand Held Infra-Scanners, That Detect Brain Bleeds, Introduced For Pro Boxing in UK

Great news for the fighters and about fucking time these were used! :cool:

Hand Held Infra-Scanners, That Detect Brain Bleeds, Introduced For Professional Boxing Events In The United Kingdom.
The British & Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) are set to introduce hand held Infra-Scanners, that can detect Brain bleeds, at events sanctioned by themselves in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
Sky News’ Health & Science Correspondent, Thomas Moore, highlighted the benefits of the use of the Infra-Scanners, that can detect brain bleeds with an accuracy of 90%, often before any symptoms such as headaches or confusion become apparent, following the death of Mike Towell last year at an event sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).
In the article Mr. Moore stated “Compulsory brain imaging using Infra-Scanners could be "massive" for boxers who risk death from professional competition.”
On announcing the introduction of Infra-Scanners, that will be available ringside at events sanctioned by them, BIBA Vice President Gianluca Di Caro said.
“We are extremely proud to be the first to introduce Infra-Scanners at events in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as we whole heartedly believe having them ringside will significantly prevent further tragedies within our sport.”
Before expanding further and explain what had led to the decision to introduce the use of Infra-Scanners at BIBA events;
“Following two major head injury incidents last year, one that resulted in the death of Mike Towell, even though neither were on events sanctioned by ourselves, the BIBA board had decided to actively seek solutions regarding improving the way that injuries such as these can be detected as quickly as possible.
The first move we made was to appoint renowned forensic sports scientist Professor Michael Graham PhD to our Ringside Medical Officer & Medical Advisory Board. Professor Graham led the esteemed team that produced the internationally published papers “Direct Hits to the Head During Amateur Boxing is Associated With a Rise in Serum Biomarkers For Brain Injury” & “Should an Increase in Cerebral Neurochemicals Following Head Kicks in Karate Influence Return to Play?”
Professor Graham and his esteemed team are currently researching the short-term and long-term effects of head injuries in Rugby as well as preparing, in conjunction with ourselves and a prestigious UK University, a long term research project to assess cognitive function following brain trauma.
Around the time of the appointment of Professor Graham, our CMO, Dr. Louise Eccles, proposed that we should investigate obtaining Infra-Scanners, as the use of these would massively assist in detecting problems such as a bleed on the brain quickly, especially as there is only a limited amount of time to assess the location of such an injury.
Following Louise’s advice, I contacted the manufacturers and am extremely proud to say that the initial trial unit will arrive later this month, hopefully in time for the 26th February event in Bradford, that features two ten round International contests.
We have initially ordered two Infra-Scanners which will be operated by Professor Graham and Dr Eccles at our events, and are aiming to order a further eight units over the coming twelve months, so that every BIBA Ringside Doctor will have an Infra-Scanner available by 2018.
Both the appointment of Professor Graham and the introduction of Infra-Scanners, are just two pro-active decisions made by ourselves with regard to Boxer Health & Safety, there are more to come, as Professor Graham and another of our Ringside Medical Officer & Medical Advisory Board, Dr Mark Xuereb have also proposed the introduction of further safety measures, one of which is the introduction of Cognitive Testing, which will come into force very soon.
We believe that Boxer Health & Safety is paramount, as such we will continue researching procedures that can assist us provide the very best medical evaluations possible.”
www.boxbiba.com

they must have read your threads.

Great news

This is awesome and needs to have more exposure.

It's a proven fact that 95% of fighters who suffer brain bleeds do so through tough sparring so they are basically going into the ring on fight night as a brain accident waiting to happen so they need to use them a day or so after the fighters have finished their sparring sessions. @Memphis stuck the article on my facebook this morning ;)
And i do agree with what Memphis said last year when i was banging on about these devices in that they will give promoters MASSIVE headaches and ultimately cost them more money by having to re book everything from Venues, press gigs etc etc (not just in the UK but abroad too - AJ v Wlad promo in NYC as an example) but fuck the promoters.... they make plenty of dollar anyway.
Last year was pretty brutal in the UK alone in terms of fighter deaths and comas so hopefully this will stamp that out or at least improve things massively.
These devices will eventually be used in most sports, you only have to look at what happened to Ryan Mason when he got accidentally and brutally headbutted by Gary Cahill the other week during Chelsea v Hull.

Excellent anything to make the sport safer .

This is great news lets hope every contact sport gym eventually has a trained operative.