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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
DIZZY 2/20/07
Signs in the news are that the docs just might be catching up to the patients a tad. Topic: non-specific dizziness, giddiness, that odd spinning of self [subjective] or environment [objective] that some of us t.b.i.-ers have gone through. U-Penn physicians tracked 345 patients from 1998 through 2004. [Patients with vertigo were excluded from the study.] Their conclusion was that dizziness can have a bunch of causes. And traumatic brain injury is included in their findings, along with anxiety and some other stuff. The recommendation that careful evaluation will help in treatment feels like fluff to me. Still: thanks docs for noticing!
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Labels: diagnosis, dizziness, t.b.i., tbi
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Monday, February 12, 2007
PROTOCOLS FOR TREATING SUSPECTED BRAIN INJURIES 2/12/07
Short answer-- there is none in New York State. West Virginia has one. But we here in the currently almost frozen north do not.
I actually went to part of the local t.b.i. support group tonight after an absence of several months. To my delight, some folks from another support group were there. One of the fellows was proposing that our region adopt a protocol to include the field blood work being done on our soldiers when injured in battle [but not available here yet] and a S.P.E.C.T. which measures blood flow and brain activity. I will be writing more about this on another day.
sapphoq healing t.b.i.
I actually went to part of the local t.b.i. support group tonight after an absence of several months. To my delight, some folks from another support group were there. One of the fellows was proposing that our region adopt a protocol to include the field blood work being done on our soldiers when injured in battle [but not available here yet] and a S.P.E.C.T. which measures blood flow and brain activity. I will be writing more about this on another day.
sapphoq healing t.b.i.
Labels: bloodwork, diagnosis, S.P.E.C.T., t.b.i.
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