Why Semax removed from the ambulance first aid kit?

During the Christmas holidays the number of deaths is increasing exponentially. And most of the victims are people with disorders of the cardiovascular system. Many of these people could have been saved if the time came to the doctor with the right medications. But now, even if the ambulance and will reach in time – there are no essential drugs in its medicine kit anymore.

During the Christmas holidays the number of deaths is increasing exponentially. And most of the victims are people with disorders of the cardiovascular system. Scientists studied data on the health of more than 700,000 people who died in the New Year period from 1988 to 2013 and found that nearly 200,000 deaths occur as a result of cardiovascular disease. And if we talk for example about stroke in annualized terms, they occur more than 450,000 per year!

In our domestic reality mortality during the first month is 35%, and the survivors or die within a year after a stroke (usually due to repetitive), or remain disabled. Unfortunately, no more than 20% of patients return to a normal lifestyle.

Now there are over 1 million. People who have had a stroke, and more than 80% of them have a disability of varying degrees of severity. This bleak picture indeed caused by many factors, such as a doctor it is important to get in the first 3 hours after the onset of symptoms of the disease! Throw in the absence of appropriate treatment. For example, lists of regulated "Ambulance" mysteriously disappeared one of the drugs.

There is a drug called "Semax", developed back in the USSR commissioned by the Ministry of Defence. This drug, nootropic, neuroprotective, anti-oxidant action. Incidentally, Semax included in the list of vital and essential medicines, and its formulation is rather unusual for this kind of drugs - it is produced in the form of a solution of 0.1% and 1% for intranasal administration. Simply put, Semax is a conventional nasal drops.

It is important that Semax, for example, included in the standards of treatment of this terrible disease in Russia, as stroke. The fact that most of the drugs in this instance intravenously, but through an occluded vessel in stroke medicine is not able to penetrate to the affected area of the brain. Semax in the form of nose drops easily into the brain along the olfactory nerves. And he's a first aid help hospital before, in the first minutes and hours of the disease.

It is known that in stroke Semax solves questions drug delivery to brain cells (and treatment of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke), resulting in the preservation of human life is ensured, and reduction of disability. Therefore it is better to have these drops are always in the home medicine cabinet, as well as to carry out preventive maintenance for your loved ones (but this is a separate issue, and 0.1% used for the prevention Semax).
In addition, the drug is widely used in sports medicine because it increases physical performance, speeds up the production of automatisms, increases resistance to hypoxia of the brain during intense workouts, reduces the recovery period after the competition, prevents the development of competitive stress and its complications.

Semax can appoint and to improve mental performance. By optimizing the higher functions of the brain, it improves thinking, coordination of movements, improves memory.

And now an interesting twist. Order of the Minister of EMERCOM of Russia ¹246 from 05.05.1997, the Semax included in the sets of search and rescue services of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. Order of the Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation from 5.09.2006 ¹643 Semax is included in the standard treatment of stroke by the SMP. Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation of 27.05.2009 ¹276n Semax is included in the list of vital drugs. But N549n current order from 08.07.2013. In it we see:

1.27. Anti - hypoxants and nootropics.
1.27.1. N06BX. Psychostimulants and nootropics. Glycine, sublingual tablets.
1.27.2. N07XX. Drugs for treatment of nervous system diseases and other: inosine + nicotinamide + succinic acid + riboflavin (Citoflavin) - a solution for intravenous administration.

As can be seen, and a number of other drugs - Semax disappeared out mysteriously and left cytoflavin and glycine. I wonder why? Glycine use under the tongue, however, in the case of a stroke due to a violation of consciousness it becomes impossible, and little significant, to say the least. Citoflavin itself is pretty good, we have long and successfully use it in everyday work. However, Semax seems still more advantageous option. For example, cytoflavin administered intravenously at a rate of 60 drops per minute (0.5-1.5 hours and that - before the patient arrives in the hospital than at least half of the dose is administered). Semax is administered intranasally (through the nose) and can immediately deliver all the required dose. In cytoflavin maximum concentration occurs after about 40 minutes in the blood plasma, in Semax therapeutic effect appears after 3-5 minutes, at a stroke account goes on a minute! Both drugs have a pronounced anti-hypoxic effects, while semaks boasts more and anti-ischemic and neuroprotective.