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.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Family’s fury at ambulance response time - Sherburn-in-Elmet, UK

The fury is actually misplaced, it should be directed at the adverts that suggest that strokes can be completely reversed if you get to the hospital in time.  See tPA efficacy is appalling, I don't know about bleeds.
http://www.goolecourier.co.uk/news/local-news/family-s-fury-at-ambulance-response-time-1-5674609
Relatives have spoken of their ‘disgust’ after paramedics took nearly two hours to transport a pensioner who had suffered a stroke to hospital.
Basil Lund, 73, suffered the emergency while cleaning in his home, but two ambulances had to be called before he was taken to hospital.
His wife June was out shopping when he collapsed, and it was only through luck that a passing postman noticed the pensioner on the floor.
The postman rang for an ambulance at approximately 12.30pm but it was 1.10pm before the first crew arrived at Mr Lund’s home in Springfield Road, Sherburn-in-Elmet.
His niece Anne-Marie Barraclough said: “The first crew came from Pontefract but when they arrived didn’t seem to care at all. It was really upsetting and I was so shocked.
“They couldn’t get him away because the tail lift had jammed. It was disgusting just to leave him lying there all that time.”
A second crew was called, but it did not arrive until 2.20pm.
Anne-Marie’s husband Paul, who was alerted to the situation by Mr Lund’s brother Pete, who said the second crew was unable to locate the address.
He said: “The paramedics took an age to find the house.
“They said there was something wrong with the sat nav and that they had come from Dewsbury.
It was worrying because I’ve seen the TV adverts which say the longer someone is on the floor the more damage it does to them.”
Mr Lund is still in hospital and has been able to utter only a few words since his stroke on May 2.
David Williams, deputy director of operations for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust apologised to Mr Lund’s family for ‘the distress caused.’
He added: “Representatives from the trust have been speaking to the family directly about their concerns and are looking into these on their behalf.”
“I would like to reassure members of the public that providing high quality and responsive services to patients across Yorkshire is our utmost priority.”

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