Deans' stroke musings: St. Mary Medical Center to Host Stroke Symposium during National Stroke Awareness Month

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, April 25, 2015

St. Mary Medical Center to Host Stroke Symposium during National Stroke Awareness Month - Hobart, Indiana

I could bet you $100,000 that these so-called experts will not tell you how f*cked up stroke rehab and recovery is. They will not mention all the problems in stroke, or how screwed current stroke survivors are. You will just get pablum. Nothing on the appalling 10% full recovery rate, nothing on the 12% full restoration of function from using tPA. In fact all I bet you get is happy talk. So ask them how confident they would be after having a stroke and fully recovering being treated at their hospital. If it is not 100% confident, ask why the hell you should be treated for stroke there.(Keep asking them this same question over and over again until they answer truthfully) This is going to be damned uncomfortable but if they aren't uncomfortable about how poorly they treat stroke patients they shouldn't be in the business. But I bet they lie by omission anyway.
And yes, I can be a complete f*cking bastard, brain cells are worth saving and these people are failing at their job. Don't coddle them, they need to be told they are failing.
http://www.laportecountylife.com/health/education/52829-st-mary-medical-center-to-host-stroke-symposium-during-national-stroke-awareness-month
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke, according to the American Stroke Association, and one out of six Americans will suffer a stroke at some point in their lifetime. To raise awareness and help the community evaluate their risk for stroke, St. Mary Medical Center will host its annual Stroke Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, May 7 at the hospital, 1500 S. Lake Park Ave. in Hobart.
Healthcare specialists and leaders in the areas of stroke prevention, detection and treatment will present on a variety of stroke-related topics:
9 a.m. – Stroke is an Emergency
Hansa Sawlani, M.D.
St. Mary Medical Center Emergency Department
9:30 a.m. – Cardiology Related to Stroke
Zlatan Stepanovic, M.D.
Medical Director ICU, Director Heart Failure Clinic
10:30 a.m. – Stroke 101
Mark Simaga, M.D.
Neurologist, Medical Director of the Stroke Center
11:30 a.m. – Hemorrhagic Stroke
Ankit Mehta, M.D.
Neurosurgery, St. Mary Medical Center
12:15 p.m. – Rehabilitation after Stroke
Acute Rehabilitation Team
St. Mary Medical Center
12:45 p.m. – Get Your Plate in Shape
Chef Ryan C. Smith
Production Supervisor/Chef
The event will also feature a vendor fair providing stroke education and resources, and free health screenings, including lipid profile screening, A1C glucose screening, body composition and blood pressure. 12 hour fasting is recommended for the lipid profile and glucose screening.
Advanced registration for this free event is necessary. To register, call 219-836-3477 or toll free at 1-866-836-3477. Attendees are encouraged use the free valet parking at the West Entrance of the hospital.