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.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

With a Stroke, Discerning 'Mimic' from 'Chameleon' Can Save a Life

This is so stunningly simple, you get one of these sixteen objective diagnosis possibilities working in your hospital.
http://www.empr.com/with-a-stroke-discerning-mimic-from-chameleon-can-save-a-life/article/286143/#
The presentation of stroke can be complex, characterized by both false positives and false negatives. In the article "Strokes: Mimics and Chameleons" Fernandes et al address stroke-related diagnostic challenges.1 "Mimics" (false positives)—ie, non-stroke conditions that present with symptoms similar to stroke—account for up to 25% of suspected stroke presentations. A "chameleon" is a stroke that masquerades as a different disease state (false negative);1 indeed, a "seemingly infinite number" of ostensibly different clinical syndromes can turn out to be stroke.2
Despite the availability of measurement scales such as the Face, Arm, Speech, Time (FAST) score,3 or the Recognition of Stroke in the Emergency Room (ROSIER),4 diagnosis can remain elusive.1 Moreover, sophisticated imaging techniques—eg, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and brain computed tomography (CT)—are sensitive and specific for diagnosing stroke, but their utility declines with time following stroke onset. Therefore, the authors recommend clinical history and examination as the "reference standard," supported by brain imaging for avoiding both mimics and chameleons.

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