Deans' stroke musings: Nocturnal hypoxia and functional outcomes in 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.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Nocturnal hypoxia and functional outcomes in stroke patients

No clue on what was the point of this research.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J72222&phrase=no&rec=129006
NARIC Accession Number: J72222. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Celik, Canan; Can, Asli G.; Yalbuzdag, Seniz A.; Ozer, Mustafa.
Publication Year: 2015.
Number of Pages: 5.
Abstract: Study investigated the relationship between nocturnal hypoxia and functional outcome in the rehabilitation phase of stroke patients. Thirty patients with stroke and 20 controls were included. Functional status was evaluated with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM). Pulse oximetry was performed overnight. Baseline awake oxygen saturation, nocturnal oxygen saturation, the lowest nocturnal oxygen saturation, and the >4 percent oxygen desaturation index were calculated. Results showed that the mean oxygen saturation measurements were not significantly different between the groups. There was no significant relationship between the FIM scores and the oxygen saturation measurements of the stroke patients. The baseline oxygen saturation in patients with disease duration of 3 months or less was 94.67, and it was 96.56 in those with disease duration of more than 3 months. This study showed that nocturnal oxygen saturation was not associated with functional outcome in the rehabilitation phase of stroke patients.