Deans' stroke musings: Treatment of hiccups in stroke rehabilitation with gabapentin: A case series and focused clinical review

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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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.

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Treatment of hiccups in stroke rehabilitation with gabapentin: A case series and focused clinical review

Well maybe your doctor should tell you about this problem with gabapentin.

Gabapentin linked to increased risk of opioid-related death

The latest here:

Treatment of hiccups in stroke rehabilitation with gabapentin: A case series and focused clinical review

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 28(6) , Pgs. 474-479.

NARIC Accession Number: J87259. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Got, Tiffany ; Vivas, Lilian ; Fan, Cary ; MacNeill, Heather.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 6.
Abstract: Article presents a case series and literature review describing the use of gabapentin for treatment of persistent or intractable hiccups in post-stroke patients. Of 37 articles identified by the literature search, five reported on the use of gabapentin. This case series presents four patients with improvement or resolution of intractable hiccups on gabapentin in a stroke rehabilitation setting. Therapeutic dose ranged from 100 mg TID to 400 mg BID. Treatment duration ranged from 2 days to 5.5 weeks. Adjuncts were used in three of the cases. A potential side effect was worsened confusion in one case. Evidence on the use of gabapentin for persistent or intractable hiccups is limited. This case series expands on the current literature by examining and comparing the current literature to four cases and exploring issues related to dosing, titration, side effects, and adjuncts to gabapentin.
Descriptor Terms: CASE STUDIES, DRUGS, GASTROINTESTINAL ILLNESS, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MEDICAL TREATMENT, PHARMACOLOGY, REHABILITATION SERVICES, SECONDARY CONDITIONS, STROKE.

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Citation: Got, Tiffany , Vivas, Lilian , Fan, Cary , MacNeill, Heather. (2021). Treatment of hiccups in stroke rehabilitation with gabapentin: A case series and focused clinical review. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 28(6), Pgs. 474-479. Retrieved 10/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.