At Penn State, telemedicine boosts stroke care to rural patients

This may be the best we can do under the current circumstances. But the status quo is f*cking appalling. tPA efficacy is only 12% and does nothing to stop the neuronal cascade of death. But our stroke medical world will not open their eyes and acknowledge that everything in stroke is a f*cking failure.
Absolutely everything in stroke is a failure and has been for 30 years.
Problems in stroke;

1. There is no fast, easy and objective way to diagnose a stroke. Maybe when the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize is available. A number of friends have waited hours in ERs until stroke symptoms have visibly manifested themselves.
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/11/34-teams-are-building-medical.html

2. Only 10% get to almost full recovery.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/stroke_rehabilitation.htm
3. 12% tPA efficacy
http://wrkf.org/post/more-stroke-patients-now-get-clot-busting-drug
4. Nothing being done to stop the neuronal cascade of death during the first week.
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2009/01/15/discovery-could-help-scientists-stop-the-death-cascade-after-a-stroke/
5. No one knows how to cure spasticity.
6.  No one knows how to cure fatigue.
7. F.A.S.T is actually a failure because even at its best tPA is only delivered to 33% of those eligible and then of those that get it  it only works to completely reverse the stroke 12% of the time.

But here is the latest back patting;
http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/penn-state-telemedicine-boosts-stroke-care-rural-patients/2014-08-21