Deans' stroke musings: Delight at new specialist stroke unit at Fairfield Hospital

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, September 13, 2013

Delight at new specialist stroke unit at Fairfield Hospital - UK

This is great, contact them immediately and ask what their goals are for full recovery. Do not be pooh-poohed into silence.
This is way too important to be left to the medical staff.
With no goals there is no improvement.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/10674870.Delight_at_new_specialist_stroke_unit_at_Fairfield_Hospital/
STROKE patients can now be treated in a new specialist centre, which opened its doors at Fairfield Hospital on Friday.
The specialist primary stroke centre is one of only three in Greater Manchester.
All new stroke patients within Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust — including those from North Manchester Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and Royal Oldham Hospital — are now being referred to the centre.
Ward Five at Fairfield has become the primary stroke centre, with 16 beds, and Wards 11a and 11b are for sub-acute and stroke rehabilitation patients.
The change is part of plans to reconfigure services to improve stroke care across the North East sector of Greater Manchester, following a request from the Greater Manchester Stroke and Cardiac Network.
Dr Khalil Kawafi, consultant stroke physician and clinical lead at Pennine Acute Trust, said: “All the stroke physicians, together with all our stroke teams working within Pennine Acute, are really excited about this reconfiguration.
“This opportunity will benefit patients across the whole spectrum of stroke care, from the acute phase and then the sub-acute and rehabilitation phases. It is a real opportunity to consolidate our already outstanding stroke service, which will not only benefit stroke patients now, but future patients.”

Cath Curley, thrombolysis co-ordinator and specialist nurse, added: “This is an exciting time and gives the trust the opportunity to build on the excellent stroke care achieved at Fairfield General Hospital, especially during the patient’s acute period of care.”
Pennine will also provide sub-acute and stroke rehabilitation beds at Royal Oldham Hospital and district stroke centres at Royal Oldham and North Manchester Hospital.