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, May 31, 2016

Velano Vascular needle-free blood draw device

How long before your hospital get this for those damned INR draws? Will you be able to sleep thru the 7am blood draws with this?
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/product-center/medical-device-description.cfm/8922/?featured=no 

New device reduces risks, anxiety associated with blood draws

Velano Vascular —
Velano Vascular needle-free blood draw device
The FDA has granted clearance to a modified version of Velano Vascular’s novel, needle-free blood draw device, which is designed to reduce blood draw-related discomfort and anxiety for hospital inpatients, provide a safer work environment for healthcare providers, and standardize today’s fragmented approaches to inpatient blood draws. This second FDA clearance of the device includes two modifications designed to enhance the product’s usability for inpatient blood draws, one of the most common medical procedures performed today: The addition of a clamp for use with syringe draws, a frequent practice in pediatric patients, and a refinement to the Indication for Use (IFU). The Velano device is attached to a peripheral IV catheter to draw blood directly into a vacuum tube or a syringe; the revised IFU removes a limitation in the earlier clearance that specified when the device could be used with in-dwelling peripheral IV catheters. Roughly 760 inpatient blood draws are conducted every minute in the United States alone. Despite their ubiquity, blood draws create tremendous disruption for patients and clinicians alike, and are associated with significant direct and indirect costs. Twenty-eight percent of adult venipunctures and 44 percent of pediatric venipunctures require more than one stick to successfully draw blood, and around 10 percent of children aged 3 to 10 years old must be physically restrained to endure a needle-based blood draw. Published data suggest that U.S. healthcare professionals endure an average of 200 needle-related injuries each day. Aside from the significant physical and emotional toll of these injuries and any related seroconversion, studies suggest that accidental needle sticks cost hospitals upwards of $50 million per year.


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