Deans' stroke musings: Act F.A.S.T. to prevent devastation of strokes says top Redditch GP

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, March 9, 2018

Act F.A.S.T. to prevent devastation of strokes says top Redditch GP

Is that all you have? Prevention and F.A.S.T.? Nothing that the doctor is doing the first week to stop the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week? God, how lazy and incompetent can you get? Dump all the responsibility on the stroke patient? You as a doctor have nothing to do?
https://redditchstandard.co.uk/news/act-f-a-s-t-to-prevent-devastation-of-strokes-says-top-redditch-gp/?

STROKE is a serious, life-threatening condition that affects thousands of people each year in the UK, both directly and the friends and family of those who have suffered a stroke, writes Dr Richard Davies, Chair and Clinical Lead, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group.

With more than 100,000 strokes a year in the UK resulting in around 40,000 deaths, it’s important as many people as possible are aware of its signs.

Earlier this month, the Act F.A.S.T campaign was launched to raise awareness of a stroke and reinforce the importance of acting quickly if you notice any of those signs in yourself or others.

The main symptoms can be remembered with the word FAST: Face-Arms-Speech-Time:

· Face – the face may have dropped on one side, the person may not be able to smile or their mouth or eye may have dropped

· Arms – the person with suspected stroke may not be able to lift both arms and keep them there because of arm weakness or numbness in one arm

· Speech – their speech may be slurred or the person may not be able to talk at all despite appearing to be awake

· Time – it is time to dial 999 immediately if you see any of these signs or symptoms.

It’s important people know these symptoms and to act as quickly as possible because the sooner a person receives treatment the more likely they are to make a better recovery.

There are also a number of things people can do to reduce the risk of having a stroke.

Lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol levels can also help.

For more on the Act F.A.S.T. campaign visit www.nhs.uk/actfast/Pages/stroke.aspx.

To stay up-to-date with Redditch doctors, follow @RB_CCG on Twitter.