Deans' stroke musings: A Fast Track to Treatment for Stroke Patients

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.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

A Fast Track to Treatment for Stroke Patients - What a load of shit

I hate these feel good articles because they make it sound like stroke is no big deal if you get to a stroke ready hospital fast enough. What a crock of shit. tPA fully reverses the stroke only 12% of the time.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fast-track-to-treatment-for-stroke-patients-1425338329
In the Target Stroke program, sponsored by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, the number of patients treated within 60 minutes of arrival at the ER increased to 60% at the end of 2014, from 30% in 2010, says Lee Schwamm, a leader of the program and chief of stroke services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Notice that this only says treated, not successfully treated.