Look at it first before I color your impression.
http://www.stroke.org/site/DocServer/Explaining_Stroke_101.pptx?docID=8321
Page 2 -You notice nothing on actually finding solutions to diagnosis, treatment, recovery. No mention of research. In other words, they are just a press release organization. I will never donate to any org that doesn't do real work. They can easily look to the Alzheimers Foundation or the Michael J. Fox Foundation for examples. I wonder how their board of directors can live with themselves.
Page 4, 7 million survivors in the US and nothing being done for them. They are missing a huge pool of donations if they had any help in recovery for these chronic survivors.
Pages5-8, No links to references. If they expect to be taken seriously you have to document your sources.
Page 10, definition, I wish they would mention the real reason to be concerned, blood carries oxygen and neurons don't survive long without it.
Page 11, shows a carotid artery obstruction. This is not a stroke. With a fully functioning Circle of Willis that blockage as shown is harmless. It would only become harmful if the clot continued travelling and lodged in an artery in the brain.
Pages 18-20, stroke prevention. These are all so bland and non-specific as to be useless.
Page 23, no mention of how badly tPA works or the use of gluing. Nothing on any treatments that can stop the neuronal cascade of death. It seems they don't even know anything about the progression of stroke.
Page 24, recovery statistics. These are appalling and need to show changes since the NSA started.
Page 28, purpose of NSA. In my opinion they have failed because their purpose is wrong.
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