Deans' stroke musings: Easton Hospital gains accreditation as primary stroke center

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, December 4, 2013

Easton Hospital gains accreditation as primary stroke center - Lehigh Valley, PA

Sorry but if you can't tout your 30 day death rate and full recovery percentage then a press release talking about processes met is worthless.
Big Whoopee.
So what if they improved the processes, they don't tell you the full recovery percentages or 30day death rates which is the ONLY measure needed. God I hate these press releases, they tell you less than nothing, they are only meant to confuse.

If this truly meant anything they would be touting 30-day death rates and recovery percentages rather than the nebulous procedures to meet the Joint Commission guidelines.
Serious questions for them to answer:
1. What are you doing to stop the neuronal cascade of death in the first week? Use this as a starting point;
What I am going to insist I get after my next stroke

2. What are your stroke recovery protocols like/based upon?
3. How many of your patients get to 100% recovery?
4. How many die in the first 30 days? Compared to the US average?

The press release here;
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/easton/index.ssf/2013/12/easton_hospital_gains_accredit.html