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the new drug will be called TNK and I believe Boehringer are about to get a European licence.It is based on the old tPA but single bolus. Contact Boehringer Ingelheim for more details. PS when will the UK Ambulance service as a whole decide on a unified policy for pre hosp TH-L and make everyone get on and do it?? an impatient patients advocate.......no not the drink ----- Original Message ----- From: Robbie Coull <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 05 March 2001 19:57 Subject: Re: Pre-hospital thrombolyis......or not! > > The trouble is that our supply has just dried up - no-one will sell us > > the drugs because we are not a hospital and they say that they may only > > sell to hospitals. It is odd that we had no problems previously? > > Jel, the UK urokinase supply dried up last year. As it turned out Colville > Laird's registrar at the time was German and so Colville had him phone the > supplier in Germany. They arranged supply that way initially, but since > have managed to arrange supply in the UK through a UK company (for those of > us who don't speak German!). > > The company to contact is... > > UDG > Amber Park > Berristow Lane > South Normanton > Derbyshire > DE55 2FH > > 01773 510123 > 01773 810644 > > However, having said that we were discussing this on a PHPLS course at the > weekend (in passing) and there are rumours that the reason urokinase needs > to be used on a named patient basis is not from lack of testing but because > of evidence of lack of efficacy. Apparently there is a new bolus > thrombolytic due out soon which does have evidence of efficacy. I'm not > sure how accurate this information is. > > > Robbie Coull > > email: [log in to unmask] website: http://www.coull.net > > > DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed > and it is not intended to be relied upon by any person without subsequent > written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly the author disclaims all > responsibility and accepts no liability (including in negligence) for the > consequences of any person acting or refraining from acting on such > information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written > confirmation. This document may contain confidential information belonging > to the sender which is protected by the physician-patient privilege. > If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the author. Please > also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of > unauthorised reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, > distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message is strictly > prohibited.