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Improved Acute Stroke Treatment with Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Equipped Ambulances WAKEHEALTH.EDU/STROKEAMBULANCE A PARADIGM SHIFT I am not pretty, But I can jump too After Dr. Zhang James G. McCormick, Ph.D. Director of Research Aerospace, Hyperbaric & Undersea Medicine Department of Anesthesiology Wake Forest University School of Medicine NO CONFLICTS • FDA APPROVED USES OF HYPERBARIC OXYGEN: –WOUND HEALING –DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS –SEVERE BLOOD LOSS –BURNS –CARBON MONOXIDE POISON • EXPERIMENTAL USES OF HYPERBARIC OXYGEN: –STROKE –TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY –CEREBRAL PALSY –AUTISM –SPORTS INJURY STUDY GOALS •IMPOVE STROKE PATIENT tPA CAPTURE FOOTPRINT BY 102 MILLION PEOPLE IN U.S. •REPLACE 3 HOUR FDA POST STROKE LIMIT FOR tPA WITH FUNCTIONAL HBO2 CHALLENGE •IMPROVE EFFICACY OF tPA FOR STROKE THERE ARE 800,000 NEW STROKE PATIENTS PER YEAR IN U.S. NATIONWIDE ONLY 3 PERCENT get to HOSPITAL in THREE HOUR WINDOW POST STROKE REQUIRED for FDA APPROVED tPA TREATMENT
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