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, October 10, 2013

Cleveland Institutions Receive NIH Grant for Regional Stroke Clinical Trials Coordinating Center

If you know any of these people ask for survivors to be included, otherwise nothing useful will be done.
http://www.newswise.com/articles/cleveland-institutions-receive-nih-grant-for-regional-stroke-clinical-trials-coordinating-center?ret=/articles/list&category=medicine&page=1&search[status]=3&search[sort]=date+desc&search[section]=10&search[has_multimedia]=
Five Cleveland biomedical research and health care institutions have received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), one of the National Institutes of Health, to collaborate on developing the Cleveland Stroke Clinical Trials Regional Coordinating Center.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will administer the five year grant through its Clinical Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC), an initiative that has secured $128 million to accelerate the progress of medical breakthroughs from research labs to patient care.
Under the five-year grant, Case Western Reserve will work with its CTSC partner institutions which include primary affiliate University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Medical Center, and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, to improve prevention and treatment of strokes as well as rehabilitation for stroke patients.
“When we bring together talented and passionate people, incredible progress consistently follows,” School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, said. “We are delighted to see another strong partnership secure federal support to advance its outstanding work.”
Principal investigator on the Cleveland project is Anthony J. Furlan, MD, Chairman and Professor of Neurology at CWRU School of Medicine and UH Case Medical Center. Co-principal investigator is Peter A. Rasmussen, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery at CWRU School of Medicine and Director of the Cerebrovascular Center at Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Furlan has extensive experience in the design and management of large stroke clinical trials. In the 1990s, he guided another collaborative stroke project in the city called Cleveland Operation Stroke, which piloted the American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines campaign and is now a national program that sets standards for hospital stroke care.
“Cleveland has internationally renowned stroke researchers and a rich history of cooperation among our hospital systems for stroke care,” said Dr. Furlan. “With many hospital sites that have experience in stroke care and clinical research, we will be able to enroll large numbers of patients into a wide variety of clinical research trials.”
The grant provides resources to advance collaboration among the four major centers as well as 14 individual hospitals within their respective systems.
For example, the grant will support a centralized institutional review board for research projects, a project manager and research coordinators, among other elements. The Regional Coordinating Center will develop, prioritize and implement stroke projects for the NINDS. Selected projects will be funded separately under a Master Agreement with the institute. The grant also includes funds for training a new generation of young stroke clinical investigators.
“Stroke is one of the top killers in the United States and the leading cause of long-term disability,” said Dr. Rasmussen. “This partnership will help advance stroke research that will ultimately lead to better treatment and care for stroke patients.”
Other key senior investigators with the project include John Chae, MD, and Joseph Hanna, MD, of MetroHealth Medical Center, Svetlana Pundik, MD, of the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA, Sophia Sundararajan, MD, and Cathy Sila, MD, of UH, and Ken Uchino, MD, of Cleveland Clinic. Physicians and researchers from neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, neurocritical care, pediatric neurology and the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center also will participate.

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