Deans' stroke musings: Brain cooling emergency device gets $250K JumpStart investment

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Brain cooling emergency device gets $250K JumpStart investment

I had only seen the core body cooler, drug cooler , brain helmet, and a nasal cooler before this neck cooler. Look up my other hypothermia blogs for which one you think will survive. I think the nasal or neck ones because they could easily be applied in the ambulance. Ask your EMT which one she is going to use in the ambulance the next time you have a stroke. Or better yet, call up your ambulance service now and ask them about it. If we don't push this it won't get done. Your stroke associations won't do anything.
http://www.medcitynews.com/2012/04/brain-cooling-emergency-device-gets-250k-jumpstart-investment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brain-cooling-emergency-device-gets-250k-jumpstart-investment

Therapeutic hypothermia medical device company Life Core Technologies has received a $250,000 investment from state-backed economic development group JumpStart.
The funding is part of an anticipated $3 million series A investment for the Cleveland-area company, which will use the cash on clinical studies aimed at furthering adoption of its device, CEO Mike Burke told MedCity News last week.

Life Core’s device, the Excel Cerebral Cooling System, resembles a neck-immobilization collar and works via a proprietary chemical that can reach temperatures as low as -5 degrees Celsius within seconds of activation. The chemical allows the collar to cool blood that’s going to the brain, which induces mild hypothermia.
Cooling the brain helps reduce the chances of inflammation and injury to tissue once blood flow is restored to patients who’ve suffered from heart attack, stroke or traumatic brain injury.
“This is an easy-to-use, noninvasive, highly effective solution to help decrease the potential long-term neurologic damage these already life-threatening incidents can cause,” JumpStart’s Lee Poseidon said of the cooling system. (Disclosure: JumpStart is an investor in MedCity News’ parent company, MedCity Media.)
Emergency medical service departments from 86 municipalities are already using the cooling device, Burke said.