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We each have and will be asked to treat future patients with similar  
protocols.   We MUST be sure that any such treatment be via an IRB  approved tightly 
controled protocol.      I have  searched and searched for OUTCOME data to 
support both the continuing use  of steroids or this new HYPOTHERMIA treatment, 
or even early decompression in  acute spinal cord injury.      By outcome, I am 
talking  about a favorable FUNCTIONAL outcome, not the hocus pocus non  
functional  tiny change reports from the several methylprednisolone  studies.      
 
Because we are going to be innundated with questions, does anyone know the  
exact protocol used in Miami and in this patient.   Was there a  lamenectomy.   
Was there local hypothermia,  what drugs were  used.     Were steroids used.  
 What has been the  exact functional improvement and in how many patients?
 
Even some of the hypothermia in cardiac and stroke patients is  marginal.   
We are all being asked to buy cooling cradles and blankets  for regional EMS 
mandated protocols, with very very marginal , but marketing,  information.   ONE 
MUST NOT equate the studies in MI and stroke to  cervical spinal cord injury. 
   
 
k



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