Deans' stroke musings: Mount St. Mary's celebrates stroke achievements

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, May 28, 2013

Mount St. Mary's celebrates stroke achievements - Niagara Falls

I will only focus on the last line, its that mentality that is preventing progress in stroke. What we have today is good enough - NO IT'S NOT. A 10 % recovery rate is failure by any definition.
http://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2013/05/28/111153/mount-st.-marys-celebrates-stroke-achievements
Congratulations are in order for the team that oversees the stroke care program at Mount St. Mary's for earning the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target Stroke Honor Roll designation.
In a ceremony to celebrate the awards, from left, hospital President and CEO Judy Maness was joined by stroke patient survivor Edgar Hayes of Lewiston, stroke program medical director Dr. Gregory Sambucci, clinical excellence coordinator Rosanne Schavi, and the American Heart and American Stroke Association of Western New York's executive director, Liz Zulawski, and quality improvement director, Roseanne Hemmitt.
Over a 12-month period, at least 50 percent of the hospital's eligible ischemic stroke patients received tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, within 60 minutes of arriving at the hospital (known as "door-to-needle" time).
A thrombolytic, or clot-busting agent, tPA is the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the urgent treatment of ischemic stroke. If given intravenously in the first three hours after the start of stroke symptoms, tPA has been shown to significantly reverse the effects of stroke and reduce permanent disability.
"With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target Stroke Honor Roll demonstrates Mount St. Mary's commitment to being one of the top hospitals in the country for providing aggressive, proven stroke care," Maness said. "We will continue with our focus on providing evidence-based care, i.e., care that has been shown in scientific literature to quickly and efficiently treat stroke patients with proven protocols."