Deans' stroke musings: SNIS establishes partnership to develop quality measures to improve stroke outcomes

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, June 2, 2018

SNIS establishes partnership to develop quality measures to improve stroke outcomes

One second and I have the answer, 100% recovery for all survivors. Don't you dare let these blithering idiots use the tyranny of low expectations to take over.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/sons-sep060118.php

Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Fairfax, Va. - The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has assembled a powerful collaboration with key stakeholder groups to develop quality measures for stroke treatment. The collaboration--which includes a mix of industry and nonprofit groups--consists of measures development expertise from Avalere Health and input from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, the National Stroke Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Together, these organizations will work to improve outcomes for ischemic stroke patients who have a large vessel occlusion (LVO), or "severe" stroke.

The partners, led by SNIS, have applied for a grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to support this evidence-based initiative. This collaborative effort was supported by a grant from Stryker Neurovascular.

"Clear quality measures in cases of stroke can help doctors and first responders make quick decisions to help their patients survive," said Dr. Blaise Baxter, a neurointerventionalist at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the President of SNIS. "Our partners bring expertise in emergency room protocols, data collection, inter-hospital transfers and the patient perspective, and will help us get a clear picture of the new measures that need to be developed and adopted to help stroke patients."

This partnership is bringing together diverse stakeholders who will identify gaps in quality of care and ensure that patients who require mechanical thrombectomy to remove a blood clot receive treatment quickly. Currently, no standard set of measures encompassing triage and treatment exist in the stroke care landscape, resulting in less than 10 percent of severe stroke patients receiving this life-saving stroke surgery.

"Stryker is pleased to support this important initiative. Development of clear quality measures will enable more stroke patients to receive treatment quickly," said Mark Paul, President of Stryker Neurovascular.

CMS is expected to provide notification of the SNIS grant application by late summer. SNIS will begin measure development immediately thereafter.

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About the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery

The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) is a scientific and educational association dedicated to advancing the specialty of neurointerventional surgery through research, standard-setting and education and advocacy in order to provide the highest quality of patient care in diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain, spine, head and neck. http://www.snisonline.org. Follow us on Twitter @SNISinfo and on Facebook @SNISOnline.