Deans' stroke musings: Ontario ERs missing 1 in 10 stroke patients: study

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, July 14, 2012

Ontario ERs missing 1 in 10 stroke patients: study

So every single ER department in Ontario should be looking at newer ways to diagnose a stroke. Maybe one of these?
Like the MindReader headset or urine testing or brain oximeter or Ischiban headband or the hand-held brain bleed detector
A 10% failure rate is pretty bad. If you know your hospital administrator ask them what they are doing to solve the problem. It is up to us to force better response rates, no one else seems to care.

http://metronews.ca/news/canada/295839/ontario-ers-missing-1-in-10-stroke-patients-study/
He was stunned to learn a couple days later, after having an MRI, that he had suffered a stroke, albeit a small one.
But given the findings of a new Ontario study, it’s not all that surprising that Bruce’s stroke was missed in the ER.
One in 10 Ontario stroke patients seen in a hospital emergency department between 2006 and 2010 was documented as having had a stroke only after being admitted to a hospital ward, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
The finding is important because time is of the essence in treating stroke patients, said Dr. Paul Ellis, an emergency physician at the University Health Network. Suspected stroke patients should receive brain scans within one hour of arrival to the ER to identify the type of stroke and appropriate treatment.
“From an emergency standpoint, we need to be more diligent about what the potential signs and symptoms are,” Ellis said.
While overall stroke treatment is improving in Ontario, the CIHI study found that for those one in 10 patients not diagnosed in the ER, there was no mention of stroke or stroke symptoms in their ER records.