Deans' stroke musings: The Plan - Australia Stroke Alliance

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.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The Plan - Australia Stroke Alliance

YOU HAVE TO GET INVOLVED. This plan diagnoses stroke way too slow and expensive. This is what happens when you have fossilized thinking, and stroke survivors will bear the brunt of this failure.

Just maybe you want extremely fast diagnosis, getting the neurologist out of the picture.

Hats off to Helmet of Hope - stroke diagnosis in 30 seconds February 2017

Microwave Imaging for Brain Stroke Detection and Monitoring using High Performance Computing in 94 seconds March 2017

New Device Quickly Assesses Brain Bleeding in Head Injuries - 5-10 minutes April 2017

The latest here:

The Plan - Australia Stroke Alliance

This growing collaboration is committed to build on the successes of phase one. We are strapping in to bring the Stroke Golden Hour to Australia’s roads and skies.

Working with partners like the Royal Flying Doctors Service and engineers from RMIT University, we plan to develop air mobile stroke units for use in aircraft and helicopters.

This will require the design of ultra-lightweight and low-cost brain imaging devices that will provide essential images of patients’ brains. during flight.(This assumes you need neurologists to diagnose stroke. DO YOU?)

Regardless of geographical location, images would then be sent immediately so city-based stroke physicians can diagnose the type of stroke that has occurred – within minutes. This overcomes a major gap in care as stroke physicians are rarely located in rural hospital settings.

The new brain imaging devices will drive enormous growth in medical technologies and healthcare industries in both Australia and potentially globally.

It would truly be such a game changer for Central Australian stroke management. Our catchment area is huge (>1,000,000 km2) – from Elliot in the north, down to near Coober Pedy in the South, over into the Western desert regions of WA and over the border of Queensland… making distance and time major issues for timely stroke management.”

– Dr Anna Holwell, GP, Northern territory

Funding of the Stroke Golden Hour:

Deloitte Economics has found that the economic burden of stroke is set to soar unless Australia addresses the pending crisis.

In 2017-2018, stroke cost $5 billion per annum. By 2050, the burden will escalate to $10 billion per year.

An investment of $100 million by the Medical Research Future Fund now will reap savings of $400 million per annum and $12 billion by 2050. This equates to an investment of <0.001% relative to costs.