New items added at Skyaid     Oct 23, 2001 -> Feb 1, 2002

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Rural Medicine

Rural Emergency Medicine  page added at Skyaid  1/02/02

Rural Medicine 4 abstracts  added 12/31/01

Rural EMS - EMS Directors organization look at costs of vehicles, etc.   June 2000   added 11/03/01

EMS is slower in the suburbs - where 40% of US now live.  added 11/01/01

Emergency Medicine

FCC continues to try to have E911 - revision of mandate- mid-Dec 2001  added 1/02/02

EMS dispatcher training only 32 hours in Seattle  (see page 15)  375 KByte pdf annual report
King County Medic 1 has 20 vehicles used by 6 units 24 hour a day and 1 unit used 12 hour a day added 11/03/01

Medicinenet.com has lots of medical information, http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
including stroke http://www.focusondiabetes.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=489 added 10/XX/01

EMS Best Practices  a nice on-line publication of Merginet
Article titles as of 10/25/01

Is there a Golden Hour for Trauma?  not able to find a reference in medical literature added 12/31/01

Possible Skyaid Watch models  added 12/25/01

Skyaid Watch communication technology possibilities  added 11/10/01

Electron Beam Computed Tomography & High Speed CT Scanner  links  added 10/30/01
  http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.55434    scam?
  http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9902/16/heart.scan/   critics
http://heartdisease.about.com/library/weekly/aa081500a.htm   Scam?

Electron Beam Computed Tomography  added 01/07/02
Article in Wall St. Journal questions the false positives and false negatives  
also: jump to previous references below

Stroke

Questions to ask hospital about stroke (how to find and select a stroke care center)  added 11/19/01

Many causes of stroke  added 11/19/01

Stroke-Free for Life - a nice book which includes how to prevent stroke  added 11/16/01

Stroke Recovery software added 11/02/01

You can help a stroke victim  added 11/03/01

Many people, especially the elderly, know only a single stroke warning sign.  added 10/30/01

Aspirin before and after, but not during stroke added 10/29/01

Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke - 1999 for Doctors added 10/27/01

BBC 1999 Subheadline of a long article: "If you are lucky enough to live near a hospital with a specialist stroke unit you will have a 30% better chance of surviving your stroke."  added 10/27/01

Review of a variety of Stroke Scales  (both: is this a stroke, and how strong is the stroke)
http://www.strokecenter.org/trials/scales/  added 10/27/01

Stroke information for Doctors  http://www.pslgroup.com/strokes.htm  added 10/XX/01

A stroke hit the spouse of a person in my group at Boeing     10/24/01. 
I expect to create a very simple stoke message that people at Boeing and elsewhere can easily remember.  Remembering only about 3 facts can provide a 50% chance of detecting a stroke, and improve by 2X the possibility of recovering quickly from the stroke.  In a few years Skyaid will be able to provide about a 5X increase in the possibility of recovering from a stroke (without disability or death)

Stroke - tests of drug which might be usable within 6 hours of onset- not just 2 hours.  AM-36  added 11/13/01

Defibrillation: AED, ICD

ICD which can be monitored remotely - apparently must be near re-transmitter in the home, etc. added 12/21/01

FDA Approves Wearable Cardiac Defibrillator   added 12/19/01

Implanted low-power defibrillation in animal studies.  possible future for some ICD designs? added 12/07/01

Heart

Heart Disease risk is 20X higher in people with inflammation 
- as detected by enzyme MPO  from JAMA   added 11/07/01
This might be similar to the prostrate cancer detection breakthu with PSA  

Heart Attack Symptoms from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, via Consumer Union  added 11/03/01

Implantable pump currently can add 250 days of life to a person with a weak heart but at a cost of over $4,000 per day.{Note: Skyaid expects to add a life-year for less than $10 - which is about 10,000X less costly} It is expected that both the life extension from implantable pump will be lengthened and cost will go down with use.   added 11/13/01

Using drugs to prevent CVD in high-risk patients (written for Doctors) added 11/10/01

Heart failure from use of crack may be too severe to be saved by Skyaid. added 11/20/01

High Blood Pressure

HYPERTENSION  from Complete Home Medical Guide, 1999. added 11/12/01

Nondrug approaches to hypertension  added 11/09/01

Beta-Blockers useful for short-term stress reduction as well as lowering hypertension   added 11/09/01

High_Blood_Pressure web page   added 11/06/01 

High-Normal Blood Pressure (130-139) which 19% of population have results in 8% of men under 65 and 25% of men over 65 having a incident ( heart or stroke) in a 10 year time period. as reported in New England Journal of Medicine  added 11/01/01

Many sites provide suggestions to lower high blood pressure  added 11/03/01
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/index.html

Heart Rate Variability

Burden of Disease & Cost Effectiveness

Saving lives might decrease disability and medical costs.  added 12/17/01
Article notices that last year of medical costs decrease with age.

Burden of Disease at Harvard Univ. in the US  added 10/24/01
Burden of Disease at World Health Organization  added 10/24/01
Burden of Disease at World Bank  added 10/24/01

Australia Global Burden of Disease   
Here are their PDF files of    Summary   Stroke Calculation  added 10/24/01

Comparing ways of measuring burden of disease and death: 
DALY, QALY, YLD, HALE ..  from June 1999 Global Forum for Health Research   added 10/24/01

British CHD statistics added 10/24/01

Years of Life Lost Graph: while in early years the primary source is auto fatalities, in later years the primary source is Ischemic Heart Disease.  added 10/23/01

Average years of life lost according to cause of death from http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/vision/1998/eng/graph1_e.htm  added 10/22/01

click here for a copy of "Years of Life Lost" chart for New Zealand

Medical - other

Cool the brain AND supply oxygen before arriving at the hospital   
Might increase survival of sudden cardiac arrest from 5% to 30%  added 11/21/01

In Jan 2001 Canada gave cigarette companies of choice of the following 16 fairly powerful warning labels to be put on packages: Cigarettes are highly addictive; Children see, children do; Cigarettes hurt babies; Tobacco use can make you impotent; Don't poison us; Tobacco smoke hurts babies; Cigarettes cause strokes; Cigarettes cause mouth diseases; Each year the equivalent of a small city dies from tobacco use; Cigarettes leave you breathless; Cigarettes are a heart breaker; Cigarettes cause lung cancer; Idle but deadly; Where there's smoke, there's hydrogen cyanide; added 10/XX/01

Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal injury in rats reversed in the lab  added 11/19/01

Spinal Cord Injury - 11,000 new spinal cord victims every year 
but there are only 17 SCI centers in the US.  updated 11/17/01

Information Access, Sensors

Dial 511 to have tellme.com computer give road conditions  added 12/23/01

Disposable cell phone update - 1st of 3 suppliers by the end of Dec 2001?  added 12/03/01

Cell phone coverage is fairly low outside of Europe, US, and Japan  added 11/20/01
Examples: Brazil, Australia, and US (GSM)  - low population density = poor cell coverage

Circuit power required is reduced by 10X every 2 years.  
This is why the Skyaid Watch can be solar-powered.  added 10/31/01

Skycar  and VTOL News

The M400 Skycar successfully completed an initial stable, tethered, out of ground effect hover on Jan 7, 2002. {hooray!!} They anticipate to soon achieve their technical milestone of a 1 minute hovering flight at 10 feet above the ground, which will initiate many 60 and 90 day stock options. Moller apparently became an SEC "reporting company" on 11/21/01,  and will soon be publicly traded.  Moller will have a press release soon to some 600 news services.  This information was abstracted from Moller Jan 2002 news brief.  added 1/23/02

Moller Dec 2001 newsletter  added 12/19/01

Moller Nov 2001 news - added to this web site 11/15/01

CityHawk has become TurboHawk  
with ambulance rescue concept vehicle which does not appear to allow the technician to access the patient.  They have an associated web site too   www.logovtol.com   added 11/03/01

MAZDA RX8 with rotary engine at Tokyo Auto Show     added 11/19/01

Skycar will be green
Recall that Toyota wants environmentally correct transportation  updated 10/24/01

IRS, Nonprofit, Skyaid

The IRS decided to not allow Skyaid to be a nonprofit - early  Dec 2001 added 12/07/01

IRS questions Nov 2001   Note: one portion of the IRS has not granted nonprofit status, but another portion of the IRS wants the organization to submit the tax statement for the past year.  Hmmm!    added 11/15/01

Brief description of Skyaid improved at Skyaid.org home page   added 11/15/01

Explore possibility of Life Warranty = Skyaid + Life Insurance  added 11/09/01

Donations: IRS has proposed that employees can donate unused time (sick leave, vacation, etc) as money without taxation and without corporate donation limitation. added 11/01/01

Summary e-mail of Sept /Oct 2001 Skyaid, Skycar   added 10/28/01

70% of US donated to the World Trade Center disaster ($934 million).  
 US News poll Oct 22, 2001  added 10/27/01