#85: Neurology's Cutting Edge - Installment #6 [22:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (607)

Neurology’s Cutting Edge - Surgery And Trauma-Related Issues For Neurology Professionals.

• Endarterectomy Outcomes Beat Stenting: In a total of more than 17,000 patients.
• Statins and Cycloserine Lessen Tramautic Brain Injury Deficits
• Biomarker Enzyme May Help Predict Severity of Brain Trauma
• DTI Sheds Light on Diffuse Trauma
• Chitin (chitosan) shows great healing and biostimulant properties

Next week’s show: Reign Over Pain - Commanding news you can use to benefit your hurting patients (6th episode).

 

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Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals, installment #5

Publication Date: Apr 27th, 2007.

Focus: carotid artery stenting vs. endarterectomy.

1. Consensus limits carotid stenting to the sickest patients: a technology may have been introduced to humankind, before adequate safety and efficacy studies.
2. Restenosis may be an ongoing process after secondary stent: an early and long-term phenomenon.
3. Carotid stenting has low complication rate in registry: may help decide if benefits outweigh the risks.
4. Brain function may be boosted by carotid artery stenting.
5. Preventable errors cause stroke in carotid stenting: learning the errors might help reduce complications.

And last but not least: help your nicotine-addicted patients prevent a stroke, by ‘walking a mile for a camel’? Don’t even think about it!

 

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Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals, installment #5.

Publication Date: Feb 23rd, 2007.

Show Notes: Carotid stenting versus carotid endarterectomy: from a large meta analysis we now have the first statistically significant difference ever seen in the serious adverse events after treatment with these two surgical alternatives.

Gamma Knife for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: the radiosurgery was performed on 30 patients. Essentially 70% of the patients were seizure free at 2 years.

In memoriam: Dr. Hugo W. Moser died on Jan. 20, 2007. His landmark study was on the preventive effects of Lorenzo’s Oil, profiled in the popular film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte.

Links:

• www.cms.hhs.gov: You can submit your comments regarding Center for Medicare Services proposed expanded coverage of carotid stenting. Deadline for submissions: Mar 3rd, 2007.
• www.myelin.org: Foundation started by Lorenzo Odone’s family. Focused on finding the solution for remyelination.

 

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Our fourth installment of Neurology’s Cutting Edge–with focus on surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals.

Publication Date: 11/24/06.

Show Notes:

Neurology’s Cutting Edge brings you important information on patients with brain injuries – especially SPECT scans for functional neuroanatomy of the brain, and cost issues for neurologists treating brain injured patients. Learn about beta blockers protective role in traumatic brain injury, more on hyperbaric oxygen for brain injury, and possible good news for research on the possible patent foramen ovale — migraine link. And last but not least, maggots for wound healing, without the maggots.

Show Links:
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_toolkit/toolkit.htm
www.amenclinics.com

 

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Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals.

Publication date: September 8, 2006

 

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Surgery-related issues for neurology professionals