Thursday, March 28, 2013

Stroke’s Quantum Jump: The Interprofessional Team

A department heads' blog at Queens University. Its pathetic that the last quantum leap for stroke was back in 1996 for tPA. And tPA has poor efficacy so it was more like a high jump.
http://deptmed.queensu.ca/blog/?p=220

My reply in the comments section, no response.
When are we going to get to the next quantum jump and start identifying interventions that are neuroprotective or stop the neuronal cascade of death? I know Dr. Michael Tymianski has noted that 1000+ drugs that worked in preventing damage in rodents did not work in humans. That might be explained by rodent inflammation is not the same as human inflammation. For my next stroke I will demand my doctor give me ibuprofen, levodopa, anti-depressants,minocycline, fish oil, amantadine or tell me why not.

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