Deans' stroke musings: Better stroke recovery - launch of the NSW Stroke Reperfusion Program

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.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Better stroke recovery - launch of the NSW Stroke Reperfusion Program

I know these people think they have done lots of good. But lets examine this.
Massive failure here. You Aussies need to step up and challenge this, your medical world has completely failed. And I know I have no medical training but that shouldn't stop you from questioning their lack of keeping up with recent developments in stroke options. Just because something is the current standard of care doesn't mean we should just blindly follow it.
http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1299388/better-stroke-recovery/?cs=12
STROKE patients will receive faster treatment and have better recovery outcomes following the launch of the NSW Stroke Reperfusion Program.
The program is designed to see stroke patients receive targeted care faster from the onset of symptoms.
Health Minister Jillian Skinner said stroke was Australia's second greatest killer after heart disease and left many people with a disability.
"It's clear that time plays a major role when it comes to treatment and recovery for stroke patients," Mrs Skinner said. (Why do they think that reperfusion alone is the best there is? This doesn't stop the neuronal cascade of death)
Although death and disability can be reduced by early administration of thrombolytic therapy, which helps to break up or dissolve blood clots, studies show only three per cent of ischaemic stroke patients receive treatment within appropriate timeframes.
Under the NSW Stroke Reperfusion Program — which is being rolled out across 20 hospitals — patients will:
■ be identified within three hours of the first symptom by paramedics using the internationally recognised validated FAST (Face, Arm, Speech, Time) protocol. (This is still subjective, try one of these fourteen)
■ Be transported to the closest 24/7 NSW Acute Stroke Thrombolysis Centre. (Where's the hypothermia administration?)
■ Be assessed rapidly within the emergency department.
■ Receive rapid brain imaging, investigations, neurology review and, if suitable, medication to dissolve blood clots.
■ Be less likely to suffer any long-term disability as a result of their stroke.
As part of the program, all NSW paramedics are undergoing advanced stroke recognition training. Paramedics will transport suspected stroke patients to one of the 20 hospitals identified as having reperfusion expertise.
Details: www.aci.health.nsw.gov.au.