How many years before your hospital ER gets one of these? 10? 15? 25? Unless YOU contact your hospital president this is not going to happen. Because this is a neurologist job killer and would reduce the use of those expensive MRI and CT machines leading to less income for the hospital.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=142674&CultureCode=en
Photo: Gunilla Brocker
The results from the initial clinical studies involving the microwave
helmet Strokefinder confirm the usefulness of microwaves for rapid and
accurate diagnosis of stroke patients. This is shown in a scientific
article being published on Monday. Strokefinder enables earlier
diagnosis than current methods, which improves the possibility to
counteract brain damage.
In the article, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology,
Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital present results
from the initial patient studies completed last year. The study included
45 patients, and the results show that the technique can with great
certainty differentiate bleeding strokes from clot-induced strokes in
patients with acute symptoms.
Strokefinder is placed on the patient's head where it examines the
brain tissue by using microwaves. The signals are interpreted by the
system to determine if the stroke is caused by a blood clot or bleeding.
“The results of this study show that we will be able to increase the
number of stroke patients who receive optimal treatment when the
instrument makes a diagnosis already in the ambulance,” says Mikael
Persson, professor of biomedical engineering at Chalmers University of
Technology. “The possibility to rule out bleeding already in the
ambulance is a major achievement that will be of great benefit in acute
stroke care. Equally exciting is the potential application in trauma
care.”
The initial patient studies have been performed inside hospitals, and
this autumn the research groups at Chalmers and Sahlgrenska Academy
will test a mobile stroke helmet on patients in ambulances.
“Our goal with Strokefinder is to diagnose and initiate treatment of
stroke patients already in the ambulance,” says Mikael Elam, professor
of clinical neurophysiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. “Since
time is a critical factor for stroke treatment, the use of the
instrument leads to patients suffering less extensive injury. This in
turn can shorten the length of stay at hospitals and reduce the need for
rehabilitation, thus providing a number of other positive consequences
for both the patient and the health care system.”
Studies involving Strokefinder are currently being conducted in
Sweden at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Södra Älvsborg Hospital.
The research is being conducted in close collaboration between Chalmers
University of Technology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sahlgrenska University
Hospital, Södra Älvsborg Hospital and MedTech West, which is a platform
for collaboration in medical device R&D, with premises at
Sahlgrenska University Hospital.
A new product, based on the results of the present study, has been
developed, and further studies will be conducted in several countries in
preparation for the CE approval that Medfield Diagnostics, a spin-off
from Chalmers, expects to obtain later this year.
http://www.chalmers.se/en/Pages/default.aspx
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 28,972 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
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.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment