RE: Total car crash of a share24 Jan 2025 09:14
"Well that's no good is it when you need the result quick!!!"
Truw. I watched a programme about the Coastguard recently. There was a passenger on a cruise ship who was evacuated by coastguard helicopter because he'd had a stroke (it was his fifth). The commentary stated that the patient needed to get to hospital within 3 hours to receive the necessary treatment and best possible outcome. I understood "treatment with 3 hours" as being the medicine, which is ineffective in certain people with the gene that GDR storke market test is testing for. I don't know how strict the 3 hour window after a stroke actually is, but it's obviously strict enough to justify the expense of an evacuation by helicopter from a cruise ship and transfer directly to a hospital . Then surely, after all the effort and expense gone into to helping an elderly stroke victim, that a hospital would think nothing of paying for an immediate POC genetic test, to confirm the very urgent treatment is as effective as possible, and not wait a week for a lab test result??!