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.

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Stroke unit one of three to receive Platinum status - Gosford Hospital, Australia

 

Big fucking whoopee.

 

 But you tell us NOTHING ABOUT RESULTS. They remind us they 'care' about us multiple times but never tell us how many 100% recovered.  You have to ask yourself why they are hiding their incompetency by not disclosing recovery results.  ARE THEY THAT FUCKING BAD?


Three measurements will tell me if the stroke hospital is possibly not completely incompetent; DO YOU MEASURE ANYTHING?  I would start cleaning the hospital by firing the board of directors, you can't let incompetency continue for years at a time.

There is no quality here if you don't measure the right things.

  1. tPA full recovery? Better than 12%?
  2. 30 day deaths? Better than competitors?

  3. rehab full recovery? Better than 10%?

 

You'll want to know results so call that hospital president(Whoever that is) RESULTS are; tPA efficacy, 30 day deaths, 100% recovery. Because there is no point in going to that hospital if they are not willing to publish results.

 The latest invalid chest thumping here:

Stroke unit one of three to receive Platinum status - Gosford Hospital, Australia

TOPICS:
The team from Gosford Hospital’s stroke unit: Lauren Wheeler, Gemma Walker, Samantha Dagasso, Dianne Livermore, Dr Bill O’Brien, Dr James Evans (holding the award) Katie Ercan, Kim Malkin, Jade Edwards, Rhonda O’Neil and Elise Pendlebury

November 26, 2021

Gosford Hospital’s stroke unit is celebrating after being recognised with a second international award for meeting the highest standards in treatment and care.

After being recognised recently with Gold status by the World Stroke Organisation, the unit has now been upgraded to Platinum status– making it one of just three Australian hospitals to receive the higher ranking.

The award initiative, a partnership between the World Stroke Organization and European Stroke Organisation, aims to optimise the standard of treatment(NOT RESULTS!) in stroke centres worldwide and improve patient outcomes by setting global benchmarks for best practice in stroke care.

The hospital’s stroke lead, Dr James Evans, said the awards were recognition of the team approach taken to enhance stroke care and its use of data to continually improve.

“We are dedicated to continuously improving stroke care standards,” Evans said.

“Our patient-centred approach involves the whole team – the emergency department, CT, the neurology team, including doctors, nurses, physio, speech, occupational therapists, social work and rehabilitation.

‘It means everyone is focused on improving patient care.

“We have a dashboard of information we monitor daily, allowing us to look at a patient’s whole journey, from
emergency through to recovery and rehabilitation.”

Gosford Hospital treats around 550 stroke patients a year, with up to 150 of these having brain bleeds.

Training, protocols and the hospital’s stroke unit performance were assessed as part of the initiative.

For Platinum status, the unit had a target of restoring blood-flow to the brain to more than 75 per cent of eligible patients within 60 minutes of arrival.

Dr Bill O’Brien, who has been a neurologist at Gosford Hospital for 10 years, said the awards were the result of years of hard work.

“We’ve spent years creating and honing a truly integrated multidisciplinary team; one where everyone is equally valued and the focus is on using live data to achieve best practice outcomes for our patients,” he said.

“It’s fantastic to see all of that hard work recognised through not one, but two global awards.”

To achieve Platinum status a hospital must show a range of outcomes, including optimum time to treatment, coordinated care, appropriate scans and screening, and ensuring discharged patients are on medications to minimise their risk of further stroke.

The initiative’s Medical Project Manager in Australia, Kim Malkin, said every step toward improving care and outcomes for stroke patients was worth celebrating, as there were approximately 38,000 stroke events across Australia each year – around 100 every day.

“To date, only a handful of Australian hospitals have achieved WSO Platinum status so Gosford Hospital should be immensely proud of this achievement,” Malkin said.

Source:
Media release, Nov 24
Central Coast Local Health District

 
 
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