Deans' stroke musings: Therapeutic hypothermia device to prevent brain injury gets a cool $1.5M

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.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Therapeutic hypothermia device to prevent brain injury gets a cool $1.5M

More hypothermia stuff.
http://medcitynews.com/2012/06/therapeutic-hypothermia-device-to-prevent-brain-injury-gets-a-cool-1-5m/
An under-wraps Silicon Valley startup that describes itself as “the cold cure for brain injury” has secured $1.5 million in financing.
NeuroSave Inc. CEO Seth Rodgers said the company still has a little ways to go before it can begin talking in detail about its product. But a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office record filed by the company in 2010 refers to a medical apparatus used to induce therapeutic hypothermia by circulating cooling liquid in and around the body through tubes in the esophagus, trachea or pharynx.
Research has found that lowering a patient’s body temperature soon after cardiac arrest or traumatic brain injury can be a way to slow brain cells’ metabolism and prevent life-threatening brain damage. Hypothermia can be induced externally with the use of ice packs or cooling blankets, or invasively through cooling catheters or ice-cold IV saline.
There are a few other companies innovating in this space, including Cryothermic Systems, Life Recovery Systems and BeneChill, a company that’s partnered with Physio-Control and has the CE Mark for a fast-evaporating liquid that cools the brain when it’s squirted up the nose.