The T.P.A. Magazine
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Page : 686 pages
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Release : 1917
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Page : 686 pages
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Release : 1917
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Author : Justin A. Zivin M.D., Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0199780943
Without warning stroke can paralyze, blind, or kill. Some victims recover, but many do not and may even suffer another disabling or fatal attack. The drug known as tPA can drastically reduce the long-term disability associated with stroke, but despite its near-miraculous capabilities and the growing support of most neurologists, it has been slow to win acceptance as the standard of care in emergency departments nationwide. tPA for Stroke chronicles how this remarkable drug came to be tested in stroke victims, its early years in development by the pharmaceutical giant Genentech, and its eventual marginalization due to a convergence of unfavorable political, fiscal, and medical circumstances. For instance, initially many stroke specialists were unconvinced that the drug's benefits outweigh its risks (tPA was originally developed and is still used for cardiac patients). Moreover, neurologists called upon to assess stroke patients have not typically been trained to make decisions in emergency settings--and tPA must be given within a scant few hours after stroke. These and other factors have continued to delay the drug's universal acceptance as the most effective treatment available, and to hamper the general public's awareness that such a treatment exists--a troubling state of affairs that Zivin and Simmons argue must be rectified. Instilling the knowledge that anyone, at any time, is susceptible to stroke, from the old and infirm to the young and healthy, tPA for Stroke is a clarion call to awareness in a rapidly changing healthcare environment in which stroke, long a disease in thrall to resignation and pessimism, must be neglected no longer.
Author : J. F. Hornbeck
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2010
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ISBN : 143794311X
This report presents background and analysis on the development of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which expired on July 1, 2007. The report also includes a summary of the major provisions under the recently expired authority and a discussion of the issues that have arisen in the debate over TPA renewal. It also explores the policy options available to Congress and will be updated as the congressional debate unfolds.
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Publisher : IICA
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
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Page : 884 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Lumber trade
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Author : Yingzi Deng
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cerebral ischemia
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Author : William Walter Smith
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Sunday school literature
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Mavis J. Butkus
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780459273774
Author : Ken Uchino
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Page : 213 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cerebrovascular disease
ISBN : 9780511288883
Practical guide to the care of stroke patients in the emergency department and stroke unit.