Deans' stroke musings: Royal United Hospital staff get the lowdown on strokes 'listening' event

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.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Royal United Hospital staff get the lowdown on strokes 'listening' event

Every single hospital should have these. Instead of just praising their compassion you have to be brutally honest and tell them their results of 10% full recovery is appalling and ask for a timeline to get to 100% recovery. Unless you have them set large goals and tie their compensation to those goals they will sit on their ass. Yes, I'm blunt and an asshole and I don't care if they hate me, they are failing at their jobs by any measure.
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Royal-United-Hospital-staff-lowdown-strokes/story-19786616-detail/story.html#axzz2ez6GkPlx
Hospital staff have heard first hand what it is like to suffer from a stroke, as patients told their stories in the latest in a series of 'listening' events.
Two patients, a relative and a member of staff spoke about their experience of strokes and the impact it has had on their lives at the See it My Way session at the Royal United Hospital.
The programme uses the stories of patients, families and carers, and staff to inspire and motivate staff, and was mentioned in the Government's response to the Francis report on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust scandal as an example of excellent practice.
One patient told staff that "it was nothing short of a catastrophe, utterly devastating" when he suffered a stroke and spoke about his long road to recovery, praising the care he had received from the RUH and in the community.

Staff also heard from Claire Fullbrook-Scanlon, consultant nurse in stroke care at the RUH, said strokes could be "merciless" but said stroke care had changed from a low priority to a top medical emergency.
Head of patient experience Theresa Hegarty said: "Our speakers showed enormous courage to talk about their very personal experiences of living with stroke in front of a large number of our staff, and they really brought to life the impact a stroke can have.
"Staff tell us that these listening events are extremely useful."