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.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

tPA success rate

Background at the 2 listed urls:
http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1191417
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/32/11/2709.full
Treated patients enjoyed a near-total resolution of deficit more often (30% to 50% relative benefit) compared with placebo.
His stroke attacked the brain stem, the one section of the brain that is essentially immune to this drug’s effect.
from Elkhart General Hospital notes.
tPA is not useable in the 15% of cases that are hemorrhagic or the 14% of cases that occur while sleeping. With this poor usability why are we continuing to push this as the only hyperacute therapy?

Even though stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, there is only one approved treatment. Furthermore, fewer than 5% of stroke patients benefit from this treatment. New therapeutic targets are therefore urgently needed. Only 2% of stroke patients at 15 Michigan hospitals received the clot-busting treatment
Following statistics come from stroke presentations on www.slideshare.net
In the 3 hour window, of every 100 treated with tPA 32 benefit 3 are harmed - stroke 2007: 38:2279-2283
In the 3-4.5 hour window of every 100 treated with tPA 16 benefit 3 are harmed

With such dismal statistics where is the outcry to find something better or in addition. Hyperacute research needed.

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