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.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Telestroke Service Increases Rates Of ‘Clot-Buster’ Treatment For Stroke

So what? It is the wrong metric to measure. tPA has a pathetic 12% efficacy rate. Quit congratulating yourselves over the wrong measurement. 100% recovery is the only measure needed.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112964530/telestroke-service-increases-rates-of-clot-buster-treatment-for-stroke/
Remote Stroke Service Increases tPA Use at Community Hospitals
Dr. Stavropoula Tjoumakaris and colleagues of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital evaluated the effects of a telestroke network including 28 community hospitals in the Philadelphia area. In the network, stroke specialists used “remote presence” technology to consult on the care of stroke patients seen at hospitals that didn’t have a specialized stroke unit. The study evaluated the rate of appropriate treatment with tPA—an effective “clot-busting” drug that can be given only within the first few hours after initial stroke symptoms.
Over 18 months, the service provided nearly 1,650 remote stroke consultations; the average time from request to telemedicine response was just 12 minutes. About 14 percent of patients received tPA—including nearly all of those who could be treated in the appropriate time window. By comparison, national data suggest that only three to five percent of patients with ischemic stroke receive tPA.
About 80 percent of network hospitals increased their use of tPA for acute ischemic stroke. The percentage of patients transferred to a specialized stroke center decreased as well—possibly because patients began to improve at their original hospital. The researchers conclude, “The results support the implementation of telestroke networks for wider access to stroke expertise in underserved regions.”

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