It would have to be an off label use and doctors would need to feel comfortable with dosing.
This shouldn’t be news.
A blood clotting medicine used to dissolve clots in hearts works for strokes too?!
SHOCKED! SHOCKED I AM
My mom had a stroke in 1980. My Father-in-law had one in 1986.
Medical tech has come a long way since then. Hopefully it will be approved by the FDA, it sounds like a great weapon against strokes.
As a Paramedic (and soon-to-be firefighter), I cannot begin to count
just how many times that I am in the presence of a patient who has a history-of
acute ischemic (a clot in the tiny blood vessels, usually in the brain) Stroke
/cerebro-vascular accident...
...and All that my EMT team-members and I can do is get the person
to the closest Emergency medical facility can provide an fibrinolytic-/thrombolytic
IV drip medicine to try and break-up the clot inside the hospital.
But, if only we could have our Medical Director approve of a
National Registry / FDA protocol for this medicine to be administered by EMS
outside of the hospital...
...then we could truly be saving at least 25% more lives in the field than we are right now
WEll. Forget that. We can’t have doctors making decisions about health care. Only the gooberment wonks can do that. They won’t without getting a cut.
You don’t have to wait for a long drawn out approval process.
OTC Baby Aspirin works to prevent and to minimize strokes.
If you have AFib and a stent, like I do. You can be rxed for a blood thinner, and the docs might, probably keep you on baby aspirin once a day or twice a day with the blood thinner.
Become aware of the signs of a stroke, and you might want to take a Baby aspirin if you or a loved one are having symptoms of a stroke.
TNK worked as well as, if not better than, the current recommended drug, tPA
.......
this sounds like a marginal improvement at best. but it does give doctors more options. likely there are subtle differences in the way these two drugs react that are patient dependent.