Deans' stroke musings: American Heart Association 2020 Impact Goal

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.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

American Heart Association 2020 Impact Goal - Failure in goal setting

By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all

Americans by 20 percent, while reducing deaths from

cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent.
So rather than work on something specific like reducing 30 day stroke deaths they choose environmental/social factors. That way if the goal is not reached there is an easy strawman to blame rather that choosing achievable goals that can be measured and assigned to individuals or groups. That type of lazy goal setting would never occur under my watch.
The goal should be to research and put into practice which ones of these177 possibilities are proven to work, or your own list of research needs.

http://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd/documents/downloadable/ucm_319831.pdf
Your board of directors is totally failing in their job.