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.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Stroke service rated among best in country - UK

In reading the article you will notice they didn't quantify anything so the title is totally misleading,. So if this is your area, 2 questions to ask them;
1. What percentage of patients get tPA in 3 hours?
2. What percentage of those patients fully recover?
 Put those 2 questions in the comments and they will never get published.
Only after answering those questions and comparing them to other hospitals can they make this type of claim.
http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/stroke-service-rated-among-best-in-country-1-2478642
HOSPITAL services in Northumberland and North Tyneside for people who have suffered a stroke are among the best in the country.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s dedicated stroke units at Hexham, Wansbeck and North Tyneside general hospitals have been rated among the top nationally in a clinical audit.
The trust’s three stroke units provide specialist acute care and rehabilitation, while Berwick and Alnwick infirmaries provide rehabilitation services.
Dr Stuart Huntley, consultant physician and head of the trust’s stroke services, said: “These excellent results show that the services we provide for our patients are among the best in the country and we are delivering a consistently high standard of care at our hospitals.(Who cares? What are your outcomes?)
“They are testament to the hard work and enthusiasm of our teams who are committed to providing high quality, patient-focussed care.
“Care delivered by a specialist team is the single biggest factor that can improve a person’s recovery. We provide acute care and rehabilitation with highly-skilled specialist teams of nurses, doctors and therapists.”
The Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme rates care provided to stroke patients in their first three days in hospital.

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