Deans' stroke musings: Long-awaited stroke studies show hopeful new treatment no better than older one

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.

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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

Long-awaited stroke studies show hopeful new treatment no better than older one

I have to keep posting about this because it just shows how little stroke leaders know about stroke and its fallout.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/long-awaited-stroke-studies-show-hopeful-new-treatment-no-better-than-older-one/2013/02/08/cf3b90f4-7142-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html?wprss=rss_national&tid=pp_widget
Three long-awaited studies have shown that mechanically removing a blood clot from a stroke patient’s brain is no more useful than the older treatment of giving an IV dose of a clot-dissolving drug to the whole body.
The results of the clinical trials, presented this week at a meeting in Hawaii, shocked and surprised stroke physicians. Many had already adopted the more aggressive strategy over the last decade.

New technology helps doctors tailor treatment by linking a patient’s location to outbreaks of illness.

“For the stroke field this is a really big deal,” Walter Koroshetz, deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said of the findings, which were presented over three days at the International Stroke Conference in Honolulu.
NINDS paid for two of the trials, one of which cost $27 million. One study took eight years to complete because it was so difficult to enroll patients willing to take the chance they’d be randomly assigned to get the older treatment.

I could have told them for free that the trial wasn't going to work. You first would need to set up an experiment that would determine exactly how long neurons can be deprived of oxygen and still not be damaged. That answer would tell you how fast you would need to deliver tPA or pull out the clot. I bet the answer is less than a minute.