Deans' stroke musings: Would you survive a stroke?

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.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Would you survive a stroke?

This is actually quite a stupid press release from the NSA. They forgot to mention that even if you get to a stroke center fast, maybe 10% of those eligible for tPA get it and it only works to completely reverse the stroke 12% of the time. That's like being proud that stroke interventions are a failure most of the time.
http://support.stroke.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=39883&em_id=28201.0

Dear Friend,
In the time it takes you to read this email, someone in the U.S. will likely experience a stroke. Unfortunately, far too many don’t survive because they didn’t know the warning signs and to call 9-1-1 right away.
Learn FAST to quickly recognize stroke signs and symptoms

Learn FAST to quickly recognize stroke signs and symptoms

But we can change that, with your help.
Register for our 2015 Act FAST for Stroke Challenge and help us save more lives from stroke.
Together, we can raise $50,000 before this May to reach the more than 100,000 people at risk of dying from stroke this year.
We need to act fast. Strokes can be prevented, but only if more people know about stroke and we can reach them before it’s too late.(F.A.S.T. is not prevention)
Start a team with family members, friends and co-workers, or participate on your own. With your help we will:

Increase awareness of life-saving stroke information
Impact survivor empowerment and stroke community quality of life

With National Stroke Awareness Month just around the corner, let’s work together to make a meaningful difference by saving more lives.
Register now and invite everyone you know. There’s no time to waste.
With thanks,
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