Oxycytes in TBI treatment
Jamie Robertson is a walking miracle. Nine months ago, he nearly died. "I tripped and fell and hit the back of my head on the sidewalk," he says. "My brain was bruised and had blood clots in it, so they had to do surgery immediately." Thirty-percent of traumatic brain injury patients die. "There is no magic pill or treatment for traumatic brain injury in terms of salvaging brain tissue. If you can get oxygen to that tissue, you can salvage a lot of tissue," Bruce Spiess, M.D., a cardiac anesthesiologist at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, tells Ivanhoe.
