Preventing Catastrophic Brain Injury with blood pressure checks.

Source:  BBC Health; The Lancet

A stroke is the interruption of blood to the brain.  It is most commonly caused by vascular interruption from a blood clot or cholesterol blockage or cholesterol embolus.  Rarely, it may also be caused by fungal endocarditis and fungal emboli following mitral valve replacement surgery.

Strokes have been classified as “brain attacks.”  [...]

Heart attack? Cut off blood flow to the arm.

Source: U.S. National Institutes of Health

Apparently stopping death or irreparable damage from a heart attack could be as simple as inflating a blood pressure cuff.  This according to a recent Danish (The Country) study.

How does it work and why does no one seem to know about this?  Well, it is thought that a brief stoppage [...]

Med Tech: Long distance stroke assessment

Source: American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association (ASA) 05/2009

No, this will not help your golf game. But it may save your life. Remember Night Time Radiology? Yeah, it’s like that. High quality videoconferencing systems have been accepted as, “[A]n effective avenue to eliminate disparities in access to acute stroke and TIA (transient [...]