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Toole Medical Gas Research 2011, 1:4 /content/1/1/4 MEDICAL GAS RESEARCH EDITORIAL Open Access Hyperbaric oxygen for stroke treatment James Toole Abstract This is an editorial for the inauguration of the Medical Gas Research and addresses a particular issue of using hyperbaric oxygen for stroke treatment. Editorial include the word “stroke” so that a national effort could Stroke is one of the most expensive as well as the third be initiated in this in this neglected field. most common cause of disability and death in industria- The above is a preamble for my belief that innovations lized nations. In the US its prevalence is 5.8 million in therapy for stroke have been neglected even though causing about $73.7 billion dollars for the Year 2010. many trials have been performed - and one is hyperbaric Because of increasing life-span, these numbers are likely oxygen therapy for acute stroke and rehabilitation. to increase even more. Consequentially, prevention and Hyperbaric oxygen for stroke is not a new idea! Why optimal management of those suffering will increase has it been so difficult to convince my colleagues in health care expenditures. When I became a physician, healthcare that oxygen for those who are with acute there was no effort to prevent stroke or to identify tran- stroke deserves a randomized and prospective clinical sient ischemic attacks (TIA). Consequently the Prince-