Deans' stroke musings: Southend Hospital to provide specialist care for stroke patients

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.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Southend Hospital to provide specialist care for stroke patients

For you in the UK you'll have to ask what the hell the specialists are going to do in the hyperacute phase(first week) besides tPA. If something is out there it is well hidden. Find out and publish it for all the worlds stroke patients to use.
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/10244859.Southend_Hospital_to_provide_specialist_care_for_stroke_patients/
SOUTHEND would provide specialist treatment for stroke patients under new proposals for the east of England.
The town’s hospital, which already has a first-class stroke unit, is being recommended as one of three future hyper-acute stroke units for Essex.
The others would be Colchester and Chelmsford.
They could each see up to 40 per cent more patients in the first three days following a stroke and will have more specialist stroke physicians available.
All five hospitals in Essex, including Basildon, would continue to have an acute stroke unit.

However, hyper-acute stroke units in the three hospitals would give all patients in Essex immediate access to top stroke specialists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Jacqueline Totterdell, Southend Hospital chief executive, said: “We are delighted that our award winning stroke service has been recognised as a preferred option to become a hyper acute stroke service as part of the on-going review into the provision of stroke services across Essex and the East of England.
“We will work with our colleagues in the clinical commissioning groups and patient and carers across the local area over the coming months to ensure that our excellent service meets their needs and continues to deliver high quality critical care when it is needed the most.”