Thursday, January 16, 2014

Medicine Or Mass Murder? Guideline Based on Discredited Research May Have Caused 800,000 Deaths In Europe Over The Last 5 Years

This directly relates to the lack of guidelines for stroke rehab.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2014/01/15/medicine-or-mass-murder-guideline-based-on-discredited-research-may-have-caused-800000-deaths-in-europe-over-the-last-5-years/
A couple of paragraphs to make you mad.
Cole and Francis argue that much needs to be changed in the application of medical research:
The aviation profession has led the way in systems to prevent, recognize, study, and learn from professional failures. Clinical medicine is now following the same path. We must develop similar systems for research.
10% full recovery and 12% tPA efficacy are professional failures. Until the stroke medical world acknowledges that, survivors are not getting the best therapy possibilities.
Last summer British researchers provoked concern when they published a paper raising the possibility that by following an established guideline UK doctors may have caused as many as 10,000 deaths each year. Now they have gone a step further and published an estimate that the same guideline may have led to the deaths of as many as 800,00 people in Europe over the last five years. The finding, they write, “is so large that the only context in the last 50 years comes from the largest scale professional failures in the political sphere.” The 800,000 deaths are comparable in size to the worst cases of genocide and mass murder in recent history.

How many stroke deaths are attributable to the lack of any therapy that stops the neuronal cascade of death?

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