Deans' stroke musings: GMC receives federal grant for stroke treatment research

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.

Friday, October 4, 2013

GMC receives federal grant for stroke treatment research

tPA has a pathetic efficacy ratio of 12%. Why are we wasting money on such stupid research. These people need to be taken out behind the woodshed and flogged.
But stupidity rules until a great stroke association can direct the correct course of research.
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/10/gmc-receives-federal-grant-for-stroke.html
Gwinnett Medical Center has received a federal research grant to expand treatment options for stroke patients.
Dr. Michael Stechison was awarded the grant from the National Institutes of Health in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, to explore the use of tPA (a thrombolytic or clot-busting drug) delivered via a catheter placed using CT guidance.
Through the study, physicians will investigate clot-size reduction related to improved outcomes. GMC is one of only 60 participants internationally and the only participant in Georgia, according to a statement.
The study will help patients who have experienced an intracerebral stroke, Stechison said in the statement.
An intracerebral hemorrhage can be caused by abnormalities of the blood vessels, high blood pressure, deposits along blood vessels or traumatic brain injury.