Picpod 10 is based on an interview with Pat Kochanek from Pittsburgh, who is also the editor in chief of PCCM. He has done much lab based and patient based work on traumatic brain injury, and talks about the next level of TBI treatments.
TBI is intensely frustrating: so much of the damage has been caused, and so much of the outcome is determined in the instant after the injury occurs. There is a raft of novel potential treatments coming, which all look promising, however this is against a background of dozens of viable treatments which have been shown to be ineffective in trials.
Or is it actually that we are discarding treatments due to inappropriate statistics? Should we accept a lower standard of proof in areas where absolute proof is unlikely to ever be found?
Enjoy this one: we did!
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