Deans' stroke musings: Health services failing stroke patients

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.

Friday, November 2, 2012

Health services failing stroke patients - Australia

But this is no different from any place in the world . There are no stroke protocols for rehab. I bet that if they compared recovery of those who actually received tailored information they would also conclude that that was failing patients too.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/health-services-failing-stroke-patients-20121102-28ppl.html
CRITICAL rehabilitation services for patients who have suffered a stroke are unavailable or substandard, a national audit has shown.
Fifty per cent of hospitals did not routinely provide a discharge plan for stroke patients, according to a National Stroke Foundation audit of rehabilitation services at 111 hospitals.
It found that one in three patients were not referred for further rehabilitation on discharge from hospital - nor did they receive tailored information about stroke recovery.
Two in three patients did not receive formal counselling, and half did not undergo any mood assessment.

Rest at the link.