What I am going to insist I get after my next stroke
This is totally not to be followed. Your doctors advice needs to be followed even though they are doing nothing to stop the neuronal cascade of death. Assisting by inaction in the death of your neurons. None of these have any human clinical trial proof so don't expect an easy time getting your doctor to listen to you. I want the kitchen sink thrown at saving my neurons.
Your doctor better have something similar planned and you need to demand the protocol now. Winging it is not appropriate medical practice.
Better yet, Ask your doctor what they would do in the first week to save neurons for their stroke, if they don't have anything to say, get rid of them as a doctor.
I'm going to have to get a medic alert bracelet with this URL engraved.
0. Ambulance ride - hypothermia applied
Have them stop at that frozen lake and dunk you in it.
February 2013
0.1 blood pressure cuffs in the ambulance ride
December 2012
1. Statins.
tested in rats from 2003
Or,
October 2012
tested in humans, March, 2011
And now lost even to the Wayback Machine
So I think this below is the actual research;
2. Fish oil.
either by injection
March 2013
or a feeding tube
October 2012
3. Leg compressions
August 2012
4. anti-depressants - real ones
December 2012
5. music listening
March 2011
6. Sensation overload
the human equivalent of rat whisker stimulation.
May 2012
7. Coffee - I want many cups a day, where is 24 hour a day coffee station?
8. CerAxon
October 2011
Bobs' use of it from Pink House on the Corner.
9. Peptide application
March 2013
10. Action observation
Videos of everything from walking, running, jumping to finger ballet, baseball throwing, piano playing, eating. Every minute of the day not spent in traditional rehab should be watching videos, including during meals, that would work on multitasking.
May 2012
April 2012
May 2011
May 2012
11. bFGF administered intravenously
March 2013
12. Viagra - Ladies, I don't know how you're going to convince your doctor why you need this, maybe say its for your spouse and you want to make sure your lady parts are still working. Only tested in rats.
March 2011
13. Training in lucid dreaming.
July 2012
14. Eptifibatide
February 2013
15. dietary olive leaf extract
January 2013
16. ebselen - neuroprotective treatment? within 48 hours
December 2012
17. diabetes drug
linagliptin
December 2012
18. Etazolate, an α-secretase activator
November 2012
19. Glibenclamide - administered intravenously 6, 12, and 24 hours
after reperfusion
November 2012
20. Paeoniflorin
(PF) - PF treatment for 14 days
November 2012
21. administration of nontoxic carbon particles
October 2012
22. Ibuprofen
October 2012
23. Ceria nanoparticles
September 2012
24. Head-of-Bed Optimization of Elevation
May 2012
25. antibiotic minocycline
May 2012
26. neurotransmitter precursor levodopa
May 2012
27. Inhalation of nitric oxide
March 2012
28. old flu drug amantadine
February 2012
29. Melatonin
February 2012
and
December 2013
30. opiate antagonists — Effects of exogenous antagonists and dynorphin 1–13 - damn this war on drugs
January 2012
I don't give a damn if this is considered practicing medicine, anything else is criminally negligent.
I challenge anyone at the Joint Commission/WSO to come up with something better. Anyone willing to take up that challenge? I will post an unedited reply.
Dean I'm going to Peter's seminar today.......
ReplyDeleteI relish this post, Dean! You are a scrappy, honest, bitterly witty, occasionally all-out funny, intelligent as with a moving knife, stroke-wise yet humble, and helpful to all stroke survivors or anyone interested in their well being. Recommendtion: perhaps sadly, often gleefully and regularly read his posts (all the more if you're a neurologist). Weep and counterintuitively enjoy! ~from a survivor of a massive hemorrhagic stroke...
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