Deans' stroke musings: Treatment of stroke in Europe: the Helsingborg Declaration

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.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Treatment of stroke in Europe: the Helsingborg Declaration - from 1995

Notice they don't talk about RESULTS, just 'CARE'. No wonder stroke never gets anywhere. No one ever takes responsibility for solving all the problems in stroke. All they are doing is saying they care., but never do anything useful for survivors. They should all be keel hauled.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9190521

[Article in Dutch]

Limburg M¹.

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Abstract

Late in 1995, the Helsingborg Declaration was adopted, a European consensus text on the basic elements for policy in, and objectives of treatment of strokes. This declaration was prompted by the fact that the differences in incidence in different European countries, and the changes of the incidence in the course of the years suggest a great importance of environmental factors that can be influenced. The organizers of this consensus meeting might have enhanced the value of the document by more exactly indicating the (scientific) strength of the argumentation for each recommendation. Nevertheless, many of the recommendations are based on solid evidence. A plea is made to structure stroke care, measure the quality of care, facilitate early diagnosis and therapy after stroke, improve the possibilities for rehabilitation, and apply appropriate secondary prevention.