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, March 22, 2013

Calico

Calico is the spinoff from Google trying to fight aging and defy death. California Life Company.
My ideas on this that I sent to them are stroke related and pretty much a complete compilation of what a great stroke association would be doing.
Stroke is a massive worldwide killer and disabler.
25% who get strokes die.
Only 10% of the survivors fully recover.
The loss of Disability Adjusted Life Years is massive.
This can be reduced substantially but will require a detailed and focused strategy.
The only possible drug intervention in the first hours is tPA and that has an appalling efficacy rate of 12%. Less than 10% of possible patients get it because the diagnosis needed to prove its use is so technically advanced and neurology knowledge dependant.
The first thing you do is get away from the technical and knowledge needs for diagnosing stroke that can use tPA.
Maybe these sixteen objective ways of diagnosis.
These 16 possibilities need further research but by having an objective way to diagnose you could vastly increase those that could receive tPA.
This objective diagnosis would obviate the need for specialized stroke centers because it could be written up in standard ER practices.
To get around the poor efficacy of tPA you see what other research has pointed to already and roll out validated protocols to all hospitals.
Like these14;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/09/clot-picker-rescues-tpa-stroke-failures.html
The easy 30 possibilities are listed here;

what-i-am-going-to-insist-i-get-after.html

The 177 possibilities needing much more research are listed here;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/12/hyperacute-options-for-stroke.html
The 1000 earlier failures of neuroprotection research that Dr. Michael Tymianski of the Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute in Canada needs to be further researched to see if the rodent model in inflammation is not the same as humans explains why those 1000 drugs failed.