02/10/2016:
Jean-claude Baron, director of Inserm research within unit 894 ” Psychiatry and Neuroscience Center »In collaboration with English and German researchers put forward a hypothesis that could well change the treatment administered to patients with a Stroke : affix them as quickly as possible a oxygen mask to replenish the brain and avoid the risk of sequelae. Why had nobody thought of it before?
It is a simple gesture that would almost completely prevent the patient of the neuronal loss and sensorimotor deficits. In short, which would considerably reduce the risk of disability related to stroke.
If Baron’s work has so far only been tested in animals, the results are obvious.
Indeed, if the treatments current allowed to unclog the vessels and save them brain tissue still viable, they hardly avoided the neurological sequelae. If this research turns out to be as relevant in humans, it would greatly change the management of stroke patient and reduce the risk of handicap.
In addition, the rapid treatment by oxygen therapy with a simple facial mask could even be set up by individuals considered to high risk of stroke at their home before help arrives.
A medical evolution important and yet so simple.
via Inserm
