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, February 8, 2013

InFocus: Imaging Helps ID Stroke Area, but to No Avail

I know I posted about this earlier but it bears repeating. That until the neuronal cascade of death is solved these interventions won't show the best results. Dr. Joseph P. Broderick, do you even understand what you are up against? Just blowing out the clot does not solve the stroke problem.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/37269?
Researchers are refining every detail of stroke patient treatment to improve outcomes and advanced imaging might prove beneficial, Chelsea Kidwell, MD, said in this exclusive InFocus interview.
Kidwell, of Georgetown University, was the principle investigator of the MR RESCUE trial, which used advanced MRI and/or CT imaging to identify salvageable brain tissue. The hope was that by targeting these areas with endovascular therapy, outcomes would improve.
But hypotheses are generated to answer questions, and in this case, the answers didn't quite match up to expectations, Kidwell reported here.
It's not the end for this line of inquiry, however, Kidwell told Chris Kaiser, MedPage Today cardiology editor, as new trials will no doubt test emerging embolectomy devices and new protocols to bring treatment more rapidly to patients.

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