"My Two Cents"
Ok, so we all know that FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage right? But hey, despite today's advances, we might not have been able to save our beloved New Dealer even if we had gotten him into the Valley Hospital ER within the 3-hour "golden window." I know what you're saying. You think I'm full of shit. Well I'm not. Yes, we all know about the studies showing the notorious "clot-buster" t-PA (tissue plasminogen
activator) is more effective at dealing with stroke patients than a blind man feeling his way through an orgy feeling. But the man who commissioned the National Emergency Council's 1938 Report on Economic Conditions of the South wasn't having a simple ischemic stroke....he had a hemorrhage. Supposedly, t-PA is absolutely contraindicated in this situation.
OR IS IT???
Not according to R. G. Gonzales. In his landmark 2006 publication "Imaging Guided Acute Ischemic Stroke Therapy: From "Time is Brain" to "Physiology is Brain," this renegade argues that 1) t-PA can be given in time periods beyond the 3-hour window, that 3 hours is complete bull, and its actually an INFINITE amount of time, and more importantly 2) That some studies have actually shown that hemorrhagic stroke victims using t-PA actually may have improved outcomes?? 
Peter
What does this mean??
Not a lot for the former Navy secretary in the 1920's, who cheated on his wife and was stricken with polio after he finished up his term as Governor of New York. Yes, maybe t-PA would have saved him, but a month after his massive failure at the Yalta conference, FDR decided to have his hemorrhagic cerebral aneurysm caused stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. That's right, in exchange for vacationing at this place that helped you get through Polio, you were in a region that your own administration labeled as "desperate, full of poverty, and lacking fundamental infrastructural neccesities," like hospitals that administered t-PA. Despite critics arguments that t-PA wasn't invented in 1945, Isn't it Ironic that the attempted court-packer died in his self-described "second home" as the longest serving president?
Peter
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