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.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

How to tell if your stroke hospital is incompetent by asking one question

Do you have a stroke support group?

Having one means they have not gotten their stroke patients anywhere near to 100% recovery.

That is my definition of competency.

Three measurements will tell me if the stroke hospital is possibly not completely incompetent;

  1. tPA full recovery? Better than 12%?
  2. 30 day deaths? Better than competitors?
  3. rehab full recovery? Better than 10%?/

Their definition is probably the tyranny of low expectations/status quo.  Or the craptastic statement; 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different.'  Or maybe that they have met the Get With the Guidelines or Joint Commission standards on stroke.  Neither of which measures results, just whether they are following processes. You can follow processes 100% and the patient dies, good for the doctor, not so good for the patients.  You can't get better at anything unless you measure it. You don't measure processes you measure results.

Whoops Dean, you are challenging all the stroke doctors and hospitals in the world. Bring it on, show me your results and then we can discuss your competency.  I'm stroke-addled so it should be easy for you to bowl me over with your results.

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