Deans' stroke musings: S'pore, US researchers developing portable device for traumatic brain injury

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.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

S'pore, US researchers developing portable device for traumatic brain injury

Ask your doctor/researcher what it would take to use this to diagnose strokes.
http://www.todayonline.com/Hotnews/EDC121127-0000155/Spore,-US-researchers-developing-portable-device-for-traumatic-brain-injury
A portable diagnostic tool that can quickly detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) and improve treatment is being developed by researchers from Singapore and the United States.

The teams from Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and SFC Fluidics, a US-based biomedical device development company, are working together to develop the device for TBI, a common cause of death and disability caused by blasts, falls, knocks, traffic accidents and assaults.

They want to produce a device that is fully-integrated and has automated biosensors.

All it will take is a drop of blood to detect up to three biomarkers released by the brain after sustaining injury.

These biomarker readings will be displayed on an easy-to-read screen.

An indicator will alert the caregivers on the severity of the injury and enable them to prevent the condition from worsening.

As the device is portable, it will be ideal for diagnosis at the scene of the accident.

Unlike conventional diagnostic tools such as neurological tests and computed tomography or CT scans, the biosensor device does not have to be handled by trained personnel.

The IME is a research institute of the Science and Engineering Research Council of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, which is the lead agency for fostering world-class scientific research and talent in Singapore.