Deans' stroke musings: Wirral University Teaching Hospital - Liverpool, UK is leading the way in its care for stroke patients with one of the highest number of admissions in the region.

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.

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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, May 5, 2016

Wirral University Teaching Hospital - Liverpool, UK is leading the way in its care for stroke patients with one of the highest number of admissions in the region.

Notice that they focus on meaningless and unverifiable items. RESULTS are what you want to know about. DEMAND THAT!
30 day deaths.
tPA full efficacy.
100% recovery.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/leading-the-way-in-care-11287526
Each year Arrowe Park Hospital admits around 700 people with a stroke.
It is the top performing acute trust in the Cheshire and Merseyside region for the number of patients admitted to its stroke unit within four hours, performing better than the national average.
The work of the Wirral Stroke Service at the Trust is being highlighted as part of Make May Purple, the Stroke Association’s annual stroke awareness month in May.
Dr Ruth Davies, clinical service lead for stroke, said: “Our Wirral Stroke Service has been rated amongst the best in the North West due to the consistently high level of care it delivers.
“Our staff work incredibly hard to deliver excellent hospital care and offer fantastic stroke rehabilitation therapy in the community.”
Wirral Stroke Service offers a 24/7 consultant-delivered service and by providing specialist treatment to unblock blood clots within four and a half hours, it is able to give patients a greater chance of survival to help reduce disability.
Around 65% of its patients receive a brain scan within an hour and nationally only 35% of hospitals achieve this target, making Wirral one of the top performers.
It has a multi-disciplinary team of stroke skilled nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.
The service is more than helping patients to survive but is also about improving patients’ quality of life through rehabilitation, which can in some cases result in a full recovery. (Why not all cases?)
As part of Make May Purple, a number of events are planned for the month to offer visitors, patients and staff advice around raising stroke awareness. These will be purple themed and will be based around education, lifestyle, smoking cessation and blood pressure checks.
Stroke is responsible for more than five million deaths worldwide every year. However, many strokes could be prevented by making healthy lifestyle changes.
Dr Davies added: “A stroke can be an extremely disabling event not only for the individual but also for their family and friends. We want to raise awareness that stroke can not only be prevented, but stroke survivors can fully recover and regain their quality of life with the appropriate long-term care and support.”
For more information visit www.stroke.org.uk or follow #MakeMayPurple and #StrokeMonth on social media.
To find out more about the Wirral Stroke Service please search ‘Stroke Services’ at wuth.nhs.uk.