Friday, July 22, 2016

Mobile Stroke Unit Mixed Results

This is so goddamned easy to explain. Just because you are delivering tPA marginally faster doesn't mean it works better. You have done nothing to understand the 12% of tPA patients that fully recover and duplicate that. And nothing has been done on stopping the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes in the first week.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/59258?xid=nl_mpt_cardiodaily_2016-07-22&eun=g424561d0r
Ischemic stroke patients who received IV thrombolysis on the way to the hospital in a specialized ambulance kitted out with a CT scanner did not have a better chance of returning home without functional disability at 3 months than did those who got the same treatment at the hospital after usual transport.
So found a study from Berlin, where the system has been rolled out. But the researchers noted secondary findings suggestive "that pre-hospital start of intravenous thrombolysis might lead to improved functional outcome in patients."
"This evidence requires substantiation in future large-scale trials," they wrote in Lancet Neurology.

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