Deans' stroke musings: 'Urgent' call for research into preventing and treating 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.

Saturday, September 9, 2017

'Urgent' call for research into preventing and treating stroke patients

So Britain thinks stroke needs a lot of work. While the meme from World Stroke Day is that 'Stroke is treatable' .

What urgent tasks are YOUR doctor and hospital doing to solve all the problems in stroke?
ANYTHING AT ALL? I bet your doctor and hospital have been completely incompetent in this for years, waiting for SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM? It is no skin off their butts if survivors don't recover very well.
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2017-04-19/urgent-call-for-research-into-preventing-and-treating-stroke-patients/

More research is 'urgently' needed to help prevent and treat stroke patients, the BHF has warned.
An estimated 13 people per day experience a stroke and 66,000 people are currently living with the after-effects of the disease.
The BHF says that while there has been a 22% reduction in deaths between 2010 and 2015, new developments are needed to help 'revolutionise stroke outcomes'.
Currently, only one drug, called alteplase, is currently approved in the UK to treat an ischaemic stroke - when the artery that supplies blood to the brain is blocked. A new procedure called a thrombectomy is now being embedded in emergency care including at the University Hospital of Wales.
Experts in the field are now in the process of creating a cross-Wales stroke research and 'innovation network' so there is a more joined-up approach to the prevention and treatment of the disease.

Our aim is to create and sustain a collaborative, robust research infrastructure in Wales and help facilitate world-leading research and innovation in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stroke, thus saving lives and ultimately reducing the debilitating impact on stroke patients.
The aim here is to bring together the isolated pockets of excellent work currently being undertaken at our Universities and Academic Health Boards, to deliver the Stroke Research Strategy in Wales and facilitate a joined up approach to BHF working with other key partners to ensure stroke research in Wales is strategically funded.

– Professor Philip James, Associate Dean for Research at the School of Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University

There are 66,000 people are living in Wales with the cruel and debilitating after-effects of this devastating disease.
Although some exciting new developments have been made in stroke treatment, the options at our disposal for treating stroke patients are still far too limited.
We urgently need to fund more research to better understand the causes of strokes so that we can prevent them occurring and develop new treatments for all types of stroke, in order to save more lives.

– Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation