Deans' stroke musings: Investigation as Stafford Hospital - England

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.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Investigation as Stafford Hospital - England - fails to spot stroke

This is so stupid with 13 other stroke diagnosis possibilities out there. But I bet unless you complain nothing will be done. Contact them directly and ask to talk to the chief medical officer,
Robert Courteney-Harris Medical Director
Ask when an objective way of detecting strokes will be implemented and point him to my listed options. Then ask why he didn't know of any of these possibilities before you contacted him. . Dammit, you have to hold peoples feet to the fire, no one is going to do it for you.
Ask what your British Stroke association is doing to make sure a solution is rolled out to all hospitals. That is what a Great stroke association would do.
For all the rest of you, contact your own hospital and ask the same questions.
http://www.itv.com/news/central/2013-01-14/investigation-as-stafford-hospital-fails-to-spot-stroke/