Deans' stroke musings: Why do I focus on Neuronal Cascade of Death? rather than F.A.S.T.?

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, March 22, 2014

Why do I focus on Neuronal Cascade of Death? rather than F.A.S.T.?

I believe in doing something positive. With F.A.S.T. there is an incorrect message being put out there that if you just get to a stroke hospital fast enough your stroke can be reversed. With the poor efficacy of tPA(12%) and the few % that actually get it, this is lying by omission. That's why if you can stop all the death cascade processes you will save millions of neurons resulting in much less disability. I know this is assuming that I know more than all the stroke doctors and researchers in the world. Well I do know more than they do, I bet they haven't read and analyzed as many research papers as I have. And they sure haven't publicly put out their analysis of their strategy forward. And these 31 hyperacute possibilities would be a good starting point.

Damn is the stroke world stupid.