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, September 19, 2020

'Stroke of genius': mobile scans to transform regional care

And just why would you go with flying and be extremely slow? These should be cheap enough to distribute widely and with internet connections you wouldn't need to be flying planes around. Does anybody actually think in stroke?

 

'Stroke of genius': mobile scans to transform regional care

Australian researchers are planning a conceptual leap that could radically reduce the risk of disability following a stroke.

It sounds fantastical, but they are planning to put brain scanners in the air and fly them to people who have had a stroke.

The first thing everyone needs after a stroke is a CT scan(Really? See above options.) to determine what kind of stroke occurred. Was it a clot or a bleed? This is important because the treatments are completely different.

Treatment is needed as fast as possible because every minute of delay means more brain cells die.

The Morrison government has selected the vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford, led by researcher Sarah Gilbert, and UK-Swedish company AstraZeneca.


In the new plan, a lightweight portable brain scanner will arrive with a stroke team and all the necessary medication and equipment to provide treatment as the patient is flown to a hospital with a specialist stroke care unit.

This will mean the 8 million people living in rural and remote Australia who, through the tyranny of geography, have not been able to access modern stroke care, will have it brought to them.

Scanners to the people

It could also save those travelling in the outback from permanent disability or death.

This extends the existing idea of taking scanners to people by road ambulance. Several overseas cities now have monster-sized ambulances that carry heavy CT scanners to metropolitan residents in trouble.

These are called MSUs – mobile stroke units – and are becoming more plentiful. There are two in the southern hemisphere, one in Buenos Aires and one in Melbourne.

While still over-sized, Melbourne’s is smaller than the others and, so far, has proved to be worth its weight in gold
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