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.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Mild Hypothermia After Intravenous Thrombolysis in Patients With Acute Stroke

I can't tell from this if we should use hypothermia or not - Ask your doctor.
Your doctor can compare it to  this one -
A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Medical Practices

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/45/2/486.abstract?etoc

A Randomized Controlled Trial

  1. Markku Kaste, MD, PhD
+ Author Affiliations
  1. From the Departments of Neurology (K.P., M.T., S.M., A.M., T.T., M.K.), and Anesthesiology (K.-M.K.), Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; and the Departments of Medicine and Florey, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia (A.M.).
  1. Correspondence to Katja Piironen, MD, Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Haartmaninkatu 4, FI-00290 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail katja.piironen@hus.fi

Abstract

Background and Purpose—Hypothermia improves outcome in resuscitated patients and newborns with hypoxic brain injury. We studied the safety and feasibility of mild hypothermia in awake patients with stroke after intravenous thrombolysis.
Methods—Patients were randomized 1:1 to mild hypothermia (35°C) or to standard stroke unit care within 6 hours of symptom onset. Hypothermia was induced with a surface-cooling device and cold saline infusions. Active cooling was restrained gradually after 12 hours at <35.5°C. The primary outcome measure was the number of patients with <36°C body temperature for >80% of the 12-hour cooling period.
Results—We included 36 patients with a median of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score of 9 one hour after thrombolysis. Fifteen of 18 (83%) patients achieved the primary end point. Sixteen (89%) patients reached <35.5°C in a median time of 10 hours (range, 7–16 hours) from symptom onset, spent 10.5 hours (1–17 hours) in hypothermia, and were back to normothermia in 23 hours (15–29 hours). Few serious adverse events were more common in the hypothermia group. At 3 months, 7 patients (39%) in both groups had good outcome (modified Ranking Scale, 0–2), whereas poor outcome (modified Ranking Scale, 4–6) was twice as common in the normothermia group (44% versus 22%).
Conclusions—Mild hypothermia with a surface-cooling device in an acute stroke unit is safe and feasible (but is it effective?)in thrombolyzed, spontaneously breathing patients with stroke, despite the adverse events.
Clinical Trial Registration—URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00987922.

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