Deans' stroke musings: Stroke victim waited five days for diagnosis despite wife's pleas in Scotland

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.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Stroke victim waited five days for diagnosis despite wife's pleas in Scotland

More stupidity out there because there is no objective way to diagnose a stroke. That can be accomplished through one of these 17 ways.
YOU are going to have to complain about that because the hospital will just change a few processes and announce resolution. Do you want to wait 5 days? Keep asking questions of the hospital administrator. Early onset dementia is no excuse for not being able to diagnose a stroke.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/236856-raigmore-stroke-victim-waited-five-days-for-treatment-despite-wifes-pleas/
Weasal words from the article;
I have written to the family to say how truly sorry we are about what happened and to explain the steps we have already taken to implement improvements.
They aren't going to do anything to address the real problem(objective diagnosis) unless YOUhold their feet to the fire.