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.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Experts raise doubts over pop-up heart and stroke screening clinics

I know the experts are right about  this being almost worthless unless you have indications. This would have prevented my stroke if the question had been asked, 'Do either of your parents have atherosclerosis?' I had no other indications.

Experts raise doubts over pop-up heart and  stroke  screening clinics


Medical experts say they have doubts over pop-up clinics that screen for heart attacks and strokes in a procedure that they say is not appropriate for people without any symptoms.
Consumer authorities in two Australian states are looking into the clinics offered by Screen for Life.
The Screen for Life website says it offers fast, painless and affordable preventive health screening.
Medical director Professor Scott Kitchener says the clinics are run by registered nurses, with screenings performed by highly trained sonographers.
The results are reviewed by a cardiologist and are delivered to the patient within 21 days.
He says they have identified serious health problems in some patients.
"If there is a finding on the screening of concern then we discuss it with their GP. And occasionally I've even called vascular surgeons and cardiologists to further discuss the signals we've found on screening," he said.
Screen for Life offers a range of medical tests, including ultrasound of the carotid arteries.
However, medical experts such as Professor Paul Glasziou, director of the Centre for Research in evidence-based practice at Bond University, says the procedure is not appropriate for people without any symptoms.
"The ultrasound screens of the carotid artery, which is one of the screens that is being done, is generally not recommended," he said.
"The College of General Practitioners here doesn't recommend it, the US preventative task force doesn't recommend it for the general population."
The US preventative services task force is an independent US government panel that evaluates screening.
It estimates that doctors would need to screen more than 4,300 people with ultrasound and a follow-up magnetic resonance imaging testing to prevent a single stroke.
Professor Glasziou says there are some specific groups, such as people who have had a mini stroke, where it is really important to do ultrasound screening of carotid arteries.
"But as a general screening, it is not a particularly good idea. I personally don't have it and I wouldn't do it for my patients," he said.
"It is much more important that they just get the routine checks.
"'Do you smoke? What's your cholesterol? What's your blood pressure? Do you have diabetes?', And do those first.
"If there are any indications from those things then I may consider [those] in very high-risk groups getting that sort of ultrasound screening."

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