Deans' stroke musings: Novant plans focus on stroke in ’14

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.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Novant plans focus on stroke in ’14 - Winston-Salem, NC

Instead of these feel good press releases it would be much more useful to find out how to stop the neuronal cascade of death, resulting in much less death and disability.
http://wschronicle.com/2013/12/novant-plans-focus-on-stroke-in-14/

The goal is to teach people to more easily recognize stroke warning signs, which often come on suddenly, through a quick and easy acronym called F.A.S.T.:
F – Face drooping
A – Arm weakness
S – Speech difficulty
T – Time to call 9-1-1 - See more at: http://wschronicle.com/2013/12/novant-plans-focus-on-stroke-in-14/#sthash.FcwRtx5R.dpuf

The goal is to teach people to more easily recognize stroke warning signs, which often come on suddenly, through a quick and easy acronym called F.A.S.T.:
F – Face drooping
A – Arm weakness
S – Speech difficulty
T – Time to call 9-1-1

This is a good secondary goal but damn it all, challenge yourself to stopping the neuronal cascade of death. With the pathetic efficacy of tPA(12%), getting there fast doesn't help that much.