Innovative Vascular Access Solutions
Vascular Rescue is revolutionizing vascular access through an automated vascular access device - AVAD - designed to place central lines and arterial catheters with minimal user intervention. VRI's AVAD completes all steps to achieve vascular access, reducing errors and expanding availability of these critical procedures for more patients and providers.
Our Work
Automated Vascular Access Device (AVAD)
VRI has developed a state-of-the-art automated tool, AVAD, designed to simplify and enhance vascular access procedures. AVAD ensures precision and reliability in placing central lines and arterial catheters.
Machine Learning
Advanced imaging combined with machine learning algorithms enable AVAD to achieve precise location and assessment of the vascular access point, minimizing errors and injury.
Training and Support
Our experts in vascular medicine provide comprehensive training and ongoing support to healthcare professionals using our vascular access tools. We are committed to ensuring value, minimization of errors, and patient safety.
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Minimizing Errors in Vascular Access
Automating vascular access enables more providers, especially those with limited opportunities to practice, to provide error free procedures. Not only does AVAD reduce errors it expands the population of providers to perform vascular access EMT's and military medics would be able to place a central line at the incident scene or on route. This increases the chances of survival.
Team
Rajabrata Sarkar MD PhD
Chief Science Officer and co-Founder
Dr. Sarkar is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Vascular Rescue, Inc. He is co-inventor of the VRI vascular access device and the MDC Studio automatic tourniquet  device. In addition to his responsibilities at MDC, Dr. Sarkar is Chief of  Vascular Surgery, and Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor of Surgery and  Physiology and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Gil Blankenship PhD
co-Founder and Interim CEO
Gil Blankenship is co-founder of Vascular Rescue, Inc. and Interim Chief Executive Officer of Vascular Rescue, Inc. He is  also Founder and Chairman of the MDC Studio. Dr. Blankenship has founded several high technology companies including Techno-Sciences Inc, TRX Systems, and the MDC Studio.
Jeffrey Gair PhD
Principal Engineer
Jeffrey Gair is a Principal Engineer at Vascular Rescue. Dr. Gair received his B.S. degrees in Bioengineering and  Biological Sciences in 2009 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical  Engineering from the University of Maryland. From 2009-2017, Jeff worked for the United States Army Research  Laboratory (ARL) on a wide range of projects, including high-rate  mechanical characterization of materials, the design of protective  equipment for vehicle occupants, and developing new materials for aerial  vehicles. He joined MDC Studio in 2019 and is the founder of MDC portfolio company Modular Matter.
News
May 9, 2025 Baltimore:
Vascular Rescue signed a license agreement with the University of Maryland Baltimore Technology Transfer Office for the AVAD patents. As a faculty member in the Department of Surgery, Dr. Rajabrata Sarkar, co-founder of Vascular Rescue, disclosed the AVAD technology to the University. VRI has negotiated a worldwide, exclusive license for development and marking of the AVAD technology. This technology is the cornerstone of the Company's business. Development of the AVAD prototype was supported by by a TEDCO Phase I Maryland Innovation Initiative grant with the University. An MII Phase III award for VRI is pending.
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Vascular Rescue Inc
300 West Pratt Street, Ste 260
Baltimore MD 21201