Finally some important info about tPA in this report.
http://wrkf.org/post/more-stroke-patients-now-get-clot-busting-drug
The selected info;
"That's very encouraging," study author Dr. Deepak Bhatt tells Shots. "That's a very large increase. But 23 percent of eligible patients still aren't getting it."
Alteplase
treatment doesn't guarantee a good outcome. But studies have shown that
30 percent of stroke patients who get it have less long-term
disability(I obviously fell into the 70%), and some patients have remarkable recoveries. Twelve percent recover with little or no disability.
This is still incredibly appalling, whomever is still only pushing tPA should be fired. Only baseball players can get by with a 30% success rate, and no one should stay employed at 12%. Fire them all, stroke survivors would do much better at creating and executing a strategy for making stroke recovery better.
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