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, April 11, 2012

Decision aid leads more patients to skip stress tests

This is great for heart patients. Where is the similar one for strokes/TIAs?
ASA or NSA or WSO? Look at the nice printed decision aid .
http://www.theheart.org/article/1383105.do?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20120411_EN_Heartwire
Chest-pain patients at low risk for acute coronary syndrome are more engaged in decisions about their care and less likely to undergo stress testing if they read a decision aid that clearly explains their risk and management options, according to results of a new study published online April 10, 2012 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes [1].

Dr Erik Hess (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) and colleagues developed a printed decision aid for patients presenting to the emergency department with symptoms of nontraumatic chest pain. Their single-center study of the decision aid's benefits to these patients "provides important insights into the potential impact of incorporating validated prediction models in a patient-centered way into the flow of care and the impact of a decision aid on the patient and physician experience of care in the acute setting," Hess et al argue. "Data from this investigation suggest that shared decision-making interventions in patients with acute cardiovascular conditions may have a positive impact on knowledge transfer and decisional quality and match resource use to patient needs and preferences."

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