Deans' stroke musings: Stroke patients need faster ambulance response

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, January 11, 2025

Stroke patients need faster ambulance response

You're not focusing on the real problem! Lack of 100% recovery protocols regardless of the time presented to hospital. DON'T YOU PEOPLE HAVE TWO FUNCTIONING NEURONS TO RUB TOGETHER?

Stroke patients need faster ambulance response

The South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) could respond faster to patients suffering a stroke, according to its chief executive.

Strokes are classified as a 'category 2 emergency' and paramedics should arrive in an average time of 30 minutes, which is an increase from the previous target of 18 minutes.

In figures released on Thursday by Secamb, its average response time in December was 32 minutes 12 seconds compared with a national average of 47 minutes. Across 2024 Secamb averaged 29 minutes.

The trust's chief executive Simon Weldon said he had personal experience of caring for someone who had a stroke and added: "From a personal point of view I want us to be better."

Speaking on BBC Radio Sussex on Thursday, Mr Weldon recognised that having a stroke is "life-threatening" and said he would like to see the trust get closer to the previous target of 18 minutes to reach a stroke patient.

A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off, killing brain cells, said charity Stroke Association.

"How do we make sure that the demand that doesn't need an ambulance gets their needs met without an ambulance so we can do better for those patients who do have a stroke?" added Mr Weldon.

"But from a personal point of view, having cared for somebody who had a stroke and watch that happen, I want to be better."

'Endangering lives'

Stroke Association has said increasing demand on health and social care services "has led to an overstretched, under-resourced system which is causing severe delays in response times and handovers at hospital".

A spokesperson added: "This is endangering lives and recovery."

Secamb has more than 4,000 staff working across 110 sites in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Almost 90 per cent of its workforce is made up of operational staff caring for patients either face to face, or over the phone at emergency dispatch centres where they receive 999 calls.

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