Deans' stroke musings: James Paget University Hospital wins high praise for stroke rehabilitation work

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.

Friday, June 28, 2013

James Paget University Hospital wins high praise for stroke rehabilitation work

But they don't give any details about recovery percentages. How many fully recovered?
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/james_paget_university_hospital_wins_high_praise_for_stroke_rehabilitation_work_1_2256234
The Early Supported Discharge (ESD) team - including stroke physician Dr Hilary Wyllie and stroke therapy team leader Evie Cooper, pictured - won the East of England Stroke Forum Conference award for their poster presentation explaining how the ESD had improved patient recovery times and benefited the Gorleston hospital over the past 18 months.
While not suitable for everyone, ESD helps patients receive rehabilitation at home as an alternative to staying in hospital.
Around 50 per cent of stroke JPH patients currently benefit from ESD which started at the hospital in May 2011. Patient feedback was impressive; JPH said 100pc of its ESD patients were ‘very satisfied’, 100pc would recommend it to other patients, and nine out of ten patients (89pc) were satisfied with the level of therapy they received.
Since ESD was introduced, recovery times has improved and the average length of stay has dropped from 17.3 days before May 2011 to the current time of 13.7 days.
Lead stroke physician Dr Hilary Wyllie said: “We are delighted to have won the regional award. It’s a credit to all the staff involved that Early Supported Discharge has worked even better than we thought it would for our stroke patients. A lower length of stay has benefits for the hospital but the most important thing is that patients get home more quickly, they get better rehabilitation and we can see from the patient feedback that their satisfaction is very high.”