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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, August 16, 2016

New guidance for administering hemorrhage prevention treatment

In case your doctor or ER department is considering using this on you.
More research here from 2012.

Effect of tranexamic acid on surgical bleeding: systematic review and cumulative meta-analysis

New guidance for administering hemorrhage prevention treatment

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is currently being administered to injured patients by many prehospital air and ground systems, despite a lack of evidence supporting or refuting its efficacy in preventing hemorrhage. Several studies examining prehospital use of TXA are currently in progress, but until now there have been no guidelines for healthcare professionals administering TXA to patients. A new guidance document published in Prehospital Emergency Care provides best practices for TXA administration by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) based on the best evidence currently available.
Physicians from a number of hospitals and medical organizations collaborated on this guidance document, which has been endorsed by the American College of Surgeons–Committee on Trauma, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the National Association of EMS Physicians.
“The prehospital use of TXA has become widespread in many areas,” says the lead author Dr. Peter E. Fischer, of the F.H. “Sammy” Ross Jr. Trauma Center at Carolinas Medical Center. “Data supporting the use in this environment is limited and thus the organizations involved cannot endorse or oppose its use, but wanted to provide some best practices to EMS organizations which are already using TXA.”
All recommendations are predicated upon the understanding that hemorrhage control and resuscitation must remain the priority for EMS responders treating a bleeding patient. TXA administration should never supersede field bleeding control techniques, rapid transport to a trauma center, or the administration of blood or plasma.
According to the guidance document, EMS agencies and receiving trauma centers should develop protocols to ensure that, following prehospital TXA administration, patients receive the appropriate bolus dose in the field and infusion dose at the hospital, and that repeat doses are avoided.
“We anxiously await the results of multiple ongoing prehospital trials, but until that time we hope this document provides some guidance to improve patient care to trauma systems which choose to use TXA in the prehospital environment,” concludes Dr. Fischer.

Attached files

IPEC Prehospital Use of Tranexamic Acid

Full bibliographic information"Guidance Document for the Prehospital Use of Tranexamic Acid in Injured Patients",
Peter E. Fischer , MD, MS, FACS, Eileen M. Bulger , MD, FACS, Debra G. Perina , MD, FACEP, Theodore R. Delbridge , MD, MPH, Mark L. Gestring , MD, FACS, Mary E. Fallat , MD, FACS, David V. Shatz , MD, FACS, Jay Doucet , MD, MSc, FACS, Michael Levy , MD, FACEP, Lance Stuke , MD, MPH, FACS, Scott P. Zietlow , MD, FACS, Jeffrey M. Goodloe , MD, NRP, Wayne E. VanderKolk , MD, Adam D. Fox , DPM, DO, FACS & Nels D. Sanddal , PhD, NREMT
Prehospital Emergency Care - Volume 0, - Issue 0 Page 1-3
* Read the full article online: http://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/10903127.2016.1142628