Deans' stroke musings: B.C. announces $1.5M to help people detect signs of stroke

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.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

B.C. announces $1.5M to help people detect signs of stroke

What fucking laziness. Rather than solving all the problems in stroke let's just do press releases. You fucking incompetent blithering idiots. Why don't you for once ask survivors what they want? Your conscience laundering is useless for survivors, may make you feel better but we don't care about your feelings since you don't care about ours.
https://www.abbynews.com/news/b-c-announces-1-5m-to-help-people-detect-signs-of-stroke/
Money will help Heart and Stroke Foundation to run FAST program for five straight years

B.C. residents now have a $1.5-million boost to help them recognize the signs of stroke.
Health Minister Adrian Dix announced Wednesday the money will go towards the Hearth and Stroke Foundation’s FAST signs-of-stroke program.
FAST stands for:

Face (is it drooping?)
Arms (can you raise them?)
Speech (is it slurred or jumbled?)
Time (to call 911 right away)

Foundation CEO Adrienne Bakker said the foundation will be able to run the program for five consecutive years – a record for Canada.
“Over the campaign’s three-year duration, the proportion of people who can name two or more major signs of stroke has increased from 14 to 53 per cent,” said Bakker.
“Recognizing the signs of stroke and acting quickly can mean the difference between life and death… and a good recovery and lasting disability.”
If a stroke is left untreated, she said, the brain can lose “as many neurons in just one hour as a regular person would lose in four years. Every minute of delay is up to 1.9 million neurons dying.”
Strokes are the third leading cause of death in B.C., and the leading cause of disability in adults in Canada.
There are about 62,000 strokes in Canada each year. “That’s one every nine minutes,” Bakker said.

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