>how long will it take and how many trials will be needed for the FDA to recognize this as a new clinical practice? It will be years - and in this period how many persons who could have been saved by this kind of procedure will die?
what prevents doctors from doing it today? Nothing. Like in that case with brain cooled by groceries, doctors seems to be doing it when they can. Other thing is mass-training of doctors for some procedure - that requires that procedure should be developed to some "packaged" level. This is what FDA approval is part of and seems to be a reasonable part.
what prevents doctors from doing it today? Nothing. Like in that case with brain cooled by groceries, doctors seems to be doing it when they can. Other thing is mass-training of doctors for some procedure - that requires that procedure should be developed to some "packaged" level. This is what FDA approval is part of and seems to be a reasonable part.