Deans' stroke musings: Brain Injury Cell Death Prevention - Mechanical Tissue Resuscitation Shows Promise

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.

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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.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Brain Injury Cell Death Prevention - Mechanical Tissue Resuscitation Shows Promise

interesting concept, I haven't figured out yet how they would get this to work, see last paragraph.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244269.php
According to a study published in the journal Neurosurgery, using a new device called mechanical tissue resuscitation (MTR) to prevent cell death has been demonstrated to reduce the size and extent of damaged tissue caused by traumatic brain injury. The finding was made by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

The study was funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Defense.

Tested in rodents, MTR uses negative pressure in order to create an environment that encourages cell survival.

Louis C. Argenta, M.D., and Michael Morykwas, Ph.D., professors in the Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery, and colleagues at Wake Forest Baptist, have been using negative pressure devices to successfully treat wounds and burns for over 15 years.

The rest at the link.
Or this article about the same item;
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244269.php
The team set out in order to determine whether removing fluid and toxic substances from around injured brain cells could help improve survival of the damaged cells.
The team is currently investigation the same technology in stroke and brain hemorrhage models.
The original article here;
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/588153
In the study, a bioengineered material matrix was placed directly on the injured area in the brain and attached to a flexible tube connected to a microcomputer vacuum pump. The pump delivered a carefully controlled vacuum to the injured brain for 72 hours drawing fluid from the injury site.