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, May 6, 2015

Stroke Rounds: Imaging Delayed When Stroke Strikes Within Hospital

Diane and Bob had a similar problem within the hospital.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/51379?

'Time is brain' mantra forgotten for hospitalized patients.


Delays in the recognition and treatment of strokes occurring during hospitalization are common, and in-hospital strokes tend to be more severe and have worse outcomes than strokes occurring among those who are not hospitalized, researchers reported.
Compared with community-onset strokes, patients with in-hospital strokes generally waited longer for neuroimaging (median 4.5 vs 1.2 hours; P<0.001) and received thrombolysis less often (12% vs. 19% of ischemic strokes), researcher Moria K. Kapral, MD, of Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Neurology, published online May 4.
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There was also a greater delay between stroke recognition and thrombolysis (median 2 hours among in-hospital stroke patients vs. 1.2 hours for community-occurring stroke, P<0.001), but after adjustment for relevant factors such as age and stroke severity, mortality rates at 30 days and 1 year were similar between the two groups.
"Patients with in-hospital strokes were really very different from the community-onset stroke population," Kapral said in a press briefing.

1 comment:

  1. Yea they missed my dissection and I stayed for observation overnight. did not set an alarm so I woke up in midday with an overnight stroke. I regret not buying a portable battery charger for my phone, maybe if I set an alarm for 7-8 like I usually did the stroke could have been diagnosed further. But because I was sleeping nobody noticed I was losing braincells fst.

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