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.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Stroke success in Canada could be strained

Of course it will be strained if you stay with the status quo failures of tPA, and nothing for the neuronal cascade of death.  All you have to do is read some research and push your hospitals to implement new techniques that may not be fully clinical trial approved. What is the downside? I will be screaming at my doctor for these 31 hyperacute possibilities I'm going to insist my doctor give me the first week. 
This tsunami of stroke was written about way back in 2006.
That's been plenty of time for some intelligent planning to be done. But of course nothing has been done except issue f*cking press releases.
Stroke death rates have improved in Canada but an aging population and sicker patients could threaten the gains.
Thursday’s annual report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation says an estimated 50,000 strokes occur in Canada every year, or one every 10 minutes. About 315,000 Canadians are living with its effects.
"As our population gets older there will be more strokes and more patients to treat; many of these patients will be sicker, so there will be a bigger burden on the health-care system, on society and on families," Dr. Michael Hill, director of the stroke unit at the Calgary Stroke Program, said in the report.
Compared with five years ago, more hospitals are administering clot-busting drugs that can reduce damage to the brain if given within hours of a stroke. There is room to improve — less than one-third of hospitals that provide stroke services offer the clot-buster.
About two-thirds of stroke patients have a combination of illnesses such as chronic conditions that can make their care more complex, the group said.
In the past decade, strokes among people in their 50s have increased by 24 per cent.
The foundation estimates up to 80 per cent of premature heart disease and stroke can be prevented. Some healthy behaviours to adopt are to eat a nutritious diet, get enough physical activity, not smoke, control blood pressure, manage diabetes, limit alcohol intake and manage stress.
Stroke survival rates vary across Canada with the best chances in Quebec and Alberta. Atlantic Canadians are at greater risk of dying from a stroke, the report suggests. Reasons for the differences include:
  • Urban or rural locations.
  • Coordination of stroke services.
  • Availability of services.
Only 60 per cent of stroke patients who leave hospital return home and of those 11 per cent have home support services in place.
Better access to care and rehabilitation could speed up and improve recovery, the group said. It pointed to how 16 per cent of all stroke patients go to in-patient rehabilitation, despite evidence that suggests the number should be closer to 40 per cent.
Telemedicine also has potential to expand for stroke care.

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