This posting keeps showing up on the internet. Its disturbing because of the inaccuracies and the assumption that doctors can fix stroke patients.
Author: Unknown
During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food – while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital – (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.)
She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
(Come on, who is going to admit they said this?)
This is the unrealistic view that doctors can fix a stroke. A teaching moment for us to impart to others.
The neurologist is wrong, I think only about 3-6% patients get tPA in time and the success rate of tPA is nowhere close to 100%. My dose of tPA in 90 minutes did not reverse the damage. And only 85% of strokes are ischemic, so that neurologist isn't even considering bleeders. But I'm not medically trained so I shouldn't criticize the medical gods even when they are obviously wrong.
Here is the success rate 16-32 % depending on time.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/11/tpa-success-rate.html
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