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.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

‘Clot-Buster’ Drug May Still Be Best Stroke Treatment

If this is the case that's pretty pathetic since the neuronal cascade of death continues with either method.  Who is going to finally realize we need something better and in addition to tPA. Maybe these 164 can be tested out, 1000 failures can't stop us from finally finding a solution.
http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/hd/35574
Studies have shown that administering tPA through an IV line within 4.5 hours of the onset of the ischemic stroke can greatly minimize damage to the brain and this is now widely viewed as the standard of care for this type of stroke,

If this is the standard of care, we need something even better.

2 comments:

  1. That's sad, the doctors f'd up royally with me, but even if I was given this drug I might still be all disabled.

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    1. Yeah, I got it within 90 minutes and still look at the size of my dead area. It probably saved my life but my doctor should have reported that tPA failure somewhere.

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