Son who used AI to help save mum's life hopes case unlocks clues for other Parkinson's patients
Carbidopa-levodopa is a combination drug commonly used to boost dopamine levels in Parkinson's patients.Medical staff agreed to give Ann an intravenous supplement of vitamin B6, which appeared to stop her seizures."She hasn't had a seizure since," he said. "The next day the family and medics were all ecstatic. The neurologist was high-fiving me."The consultant neurologist in question, Dr Bruno Gran from Nottingham University Hospitals, said: "As an anaesthetist, Ed has a strong understanding of clinical pharmacology and his reasoning was sound.
- ▪Carbidopa-levodopa is a combination drug commonly used to boost dopamine levels in Parkinson's patients.Medical staff agreed to give Ann an intravenous supplement of vitamin B6, which appeared to stop her seizures."She hasn't had a seizure
- ▪"The next day the family and medics were all ecstatic.
- ▪The neurologist was high-fiving me."The consultant neurologist in question, Dr Bruno Gran from Nottingham University Hospitals, said: "As an anaesthetist, Ed has a strong understanding of clinical pharmacology and his reasoning was sound.
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Son who used AI to help save mum's life hopes case offers Parkinson's cluesImage caption, Ed Patrick and his mother, Ann, who has Parkinson's Disease, and father JohnByTim JohnsPublished3 minutes agoAn NHS doctor who says he saved his mum's life with the help of AI hopes what he learned can help others with Parkinson's Disease complications.Ed Patrick, an anaesthetist from Oxfordshire, was at his mother's bedside in hospital ready to say his goodbyes after she began suffering serious and continuous seizures.Using AI to scour recent medical journal articles, he said he identified a vitamin deficiency linked to her Parkinson's medication as a possible cause, and staff then gave her a vitamin dose that appeared to stop the seizures.Doctors say clinical trials are needed to understand more -…
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