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.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Is there a standard of care for stroke?

Or do we need lawsuits showing that our doctors are not keeping up with current research even if it has not been put into the Joint Commission standards?
If there are any the 10% full recovery shows they have failed spectactularily.

What Does the Medical Profession Mean By “Standard of Care?”

There is no medical definition for standard of care, although the term is firmly established in law and is defined as “the caution that a reasonable person in similar circumstances would exercise in providing care to a patient.”

10 Medical Errors That Changed the Standard of Care

What will it take to get stroke care up to date?

A dead president or ex-president? Or a relative of a billionaire or the billionaire?

I shouldn't be the one pointing out all the obvious solutions to the neuronal cascade of death.

2 comments:

Barb PolanJuly 19, 2013 at 8:29 AM
Hi Dean, there are two issues here, right? Standards of care should exist for both the acute phase, and for the chronic phase - obviously one focussed on preventing the cascade of death, and one on rehab.

Keep on creating waves!
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