Deans' stroke musings: Whitepaper: Telestroke Tips: How to Reduce Time to Treatment

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 17, 2015

Whitepaper: Telestroke Tips: How to Reduce Time to Treatment - NSA

Very simple, you don't do telestroke at all because you have diagnosed and started treatment while in the ambulance. The BHAG should be in the ambulance, getting rid of the scan and the neurologist. This is definitely doable. Test out these 17 diagnosis possibilities to find out which one is the best? Or maybe the Qualcomm Xprize for the tricorder? But don't worry, NONE of these will be tested, you'll be screwed just as you normally are. If that isn't your goal you need to get out of the way and let some actual leaders take over.
Failure on a grand scale once again.
http://support.stroke.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=30613.0&dlv_id=45049

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Whitepaper: Telestroke Tips: How to Reduce Time to Treatment

Telestroke Tips: How to Reduce Time to Treatment
Download the white paper now.

The introduction of telestroke technology has delivered vastly expanded access to expert stroke care. But these improvements did not result from the technology alone—they required thoughtful adaptations of existing stroke evaluation and treatment protocols. Growing acceptance and utilization of interventional therapies have likewise necessitated a fresh look.
In light of these advancements, REACH Health has assembled practical advice for minimizing door-to-needle and door-to-puncture times into its latest white paper, Telestroke Tips: How to Reduce Time to Treatment.
This white paper explains telestroke-specific best practices for reducing time to treatment for tissue plasminogen activator and endovascular therapy. These suggested tactics are clinically validated and have been used in successful telestroke programs throughout the country.
Topics cover the entire stroke continuum of care and include: