Deans' stroke musings: Stroke awareness

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, April 3, 2015

Stroke awareness

I absolutely hate this type of public service announcement. Whomever puts this out is making an assumption that this is helping survivors. Bloody hell poorly. Getting to a stroke hospital fast helps less than 10% of those eligible for the clot busting drug tPA because of time to diagnose and not indicated. Of those that get tPA only 12% have it fully work to reverse the stroke. And since they have nothing to stop the neuronal cascade of death in the first week you can just sit in the hospital as your brain deteriorates. Yes, tPA will likely save your life, it did save mine.

What they should really say:

YOU'RE F*CKING SCREWED