Deans' stroke musings: A friend asked me what is the best stroke hospital to go to locally.

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, January 2, 2015

A friend asked me what is the best stroke hospital to go to locally.

The answer quite simply is; There is no way of knowing. Hospitals do not put out any useful statistics on their 30-day death rate, their tPA efficacy, how many patients fully recover. Because they don't do that they obfuscate by saying they meet Joint Commission standards, or Get With the Guideline standards, or CARF guidelines. These are all completely worthless because you really don't care how well they are following processes, you want to know RESULTS.
So until this mindset on stroke hospitals change you are f*cking screwed. So to get around this failure, call your local stroke hospital president and ask when they will publish results and fire the incompetent stroke department heads that allowed this failure to occur.

Nothing will change unless the 10 million survivors a year start screaming that their stroke hospitals and doctors are failing them. You need to pay it forward by vociferously complaining about these failures.