Deans' stroke musings: Your stroke hospital is putting on a stroke seminar

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.

What this blog is for:

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.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Your stroke hospital is putting on a stroke seminar - Questions to ask

Four questions to ask of them:
1. What is your 30-day death rate vs. the rest of the hospitals in the state?
2. What is your 100% recovery rate?
3. What percentage of your tPA administration results in full recovery? Is it better than 12%?
4. What are you doing in the first week to stop the neuronal cascade of death?
Non answers should result in calling the hospital president to ask why they are so incompetent.
They will do their damnedest to not answer and tell you useless crap like they follow ' Get With the Guidelines' or are certified by the Joint Commission.
Bring them back to reality and demand they answer these questions. RESULTS ARE EVERYTHING!
Or these will get assigned the:
Big f*cking whoopee.