Deans' stroke musings: Permanent damage of stroke prevented by ‘vacuuming’ blood clots

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Permanent damage of stroke prevented by ‘vacuuming’ blood clots

Maybe this would have worked better than the tPA that didn't work for me. But actually the tPA probably worked but the cascade of neuronal death continued which probably was why I was so close to death.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00334061

This clinical evaluation is a prospective, single-arm, multi-center trial.

The purpose of this clinical evaluation is to assess the safety and effectiveness of the Penumbra System in the revascularization of patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke secondary to intracranial, large vessel, occlusive disease.

Images of how it works here:

http://images.pido71.multiply.com/content/movie/pido71:video:71/pido71/71.swf/dmip0vg0lCL+iZm6WgP+3A/STROKE.swf?nmid=84570847