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, June 23, 2015

Evaluate the reversal of the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran by IV administration of 5.0g idarucizumab in patients treated with dabigatran etexilate who have uncontrolled bleeding or require emergency surgery or procedures.

So maybe my friend who refused to go on Pradaxa because of no reversal agent might be able to change her mind.
The trial here:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02104947

A discussion of preliminary results here:

NOAC Antidote Promising in Phase III Trial

Idarucizumab restored clotting in most patients on the new oral anticoagulant (NOAC) dabigatran (Pradaxa) who had serious bleeding or required urgent surgery, according to interim results of the phase III RE-VERSE AD trial.
The median maximum percentage reversal of the anticoagulant effect of dabigatran within 4 hours of administration was 100%, based on central laboratory analysis of dilute thrombin time or ecarin clotting time.
"Idarucizumab normalized the test results in 88% to 98% of the patients, an effect that was evident within minutes," Charles V. Pollack Jr., MD, of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and colleagues found.