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, May 5, 2012

5 things Physicians can learn from Pilots

This is a full on rant, so beware, cover your eyes/ears. 
From a MedCrunch blog by Lukas Zinnagl
 http://www.medcrunch.net/5-things-physicians-can-learn-from-pilots/
If Pilots, or the airline industry in general, would have been on the same level of quality, quality assurance and failure management as medical doctors, at least once a week a plane would crash.
Lets look at this from our perspective;
statistics from I'm not sure where, probably ASA or NSA, but they don't show the progression from year-to-year so it must not be getting better.

•General recovery guidelines show:
•10 percent of stroke survivors recover almost completely
•25 percent recover with minor impairments - I think I'm here, even though my impairments are not minor
•40 percent experience moderate to severe impairments requiring special care
•10 percent require care in a nursing home or other long-term care facility
•15 percent die shortly after the stroke, I bet with hyperacute treatment stopping the cascade of death this could be reduced substantially.
This is totally pathetic, only 10% recover completely, In other words a 90% failure rate. Who's in charge so they can be fired? 
Bring this up to everyone you know, tweet it away.
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