Tissue Injury Has Lead in New Stroke Definition

This is long past due. This is actually a great occurence.
1. Your insurance company will not pay for therapy until it is objectively proven you had a stroke.
2. This will lead to multiple CT/MRI scans in the first week since the very first scan may not show up.
3. This leads to objective proof of how the neuronal cascade of death resolves over the first week.
4. Proving to the stroke medical world that the number one focus needs to be stopping the neuronal cascade of death.
5. This objective scan of dead and dying areas will force neurologists/PMR doctors to use them in telling the therapists what protocols to use.
6. Neurologists/PMR doctors will be required to actually create and understand therapy protocols for recovery.
7. No more lying about recovery prospects.
8. Therapists will finally be able to do clinical research since they now will have a repeatable starting point.
9. You will be able to have a 3d mappable damage area to deficits.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/39125?
If neuroimaging shows brain tissue injury, the insult should be called a stroke, even if no symptoms exist, according to an expert consensus document from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA).
"A tissue-based definition of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack enhances diagnostic criteria and relies on utilization of various imaging techniques in the acute phase of the stroke," according to writing committee co-chair Scott E. Kasner, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues.
The experts correlated the updated stroke definition with a similar update to the definition of myocardial infarction, in which the term "acute coronary syndrome" is used before the determination of infarction has been made.
"Nevertheless, these [cardiac] patients receive urgent evaluations and treatments intended to avert or minimize permanent myocardial tissue damage," they wrote in the statement published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association

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