Really? This has been known for decades. And I bet this still will not result in looking for a tPA replacement.
You mean this poster from World Stroke Day was lying?
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=172592&CultureCode=en
American Stroke Association Meeting Report – Session A17 – Abstract
116 Many ischemic stroke patients do not get tPA, which can decrease
their chances for recovery. Blacks, Hispanics, women and “Stroke
Belters” are less likely to get tPA.
Patients treated in large, urban
hospitals, stroke-certified hospitals and hospitals participating in
the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®─Stroke program
are more likely to get tPA. Patients with private insurance were more
likely to receive tPA than those with Medicare.
Although tPA treatment for stroke is increasing over time,
minorities, women and residents of 11 southeastern states that make up
the “Stroke Belt” are left behind when it comes to receiving tPA,
according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s
International Stroke Conference 2017.
Tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, is the only treatment approved
by the Food and Drug Administration for ischemic stroke, the most common
kind of stroke. If administered within 4.5 hours of the first signs of
stroke, tPA can dissolve the blood clot and restore blood flow to the
affected part of the brain.
“Hospitals, governments and other organizations are undertaking
efforts to increase the number of patients who receive tPA,” said Tracy
Madsen, M.D., Sc.M., lead researcher and Assistant Professor of
Emergency Medicine at Brown University in Rhode Island. “We wanted to
see if these quality improvement efforts were making a difference.”
The study reviewed records from the National Inpatient Sample of
563,087 patients (median age 74) who had an ischemic stroke between 2005
and 2011. Overall, 3.8 percent of patients received tPA, with the
number growing each year.
Researchers found:
Blacks were 38 percent less likely than whites to receive tPA.
Hispanics were 25 percent less likely than whites to receive tPA.
Women were 6 percent less likely than men to receive tPA.
Those with private insurance were 29 percent more likely to receive tPA compared to those with Medicare.
Residents of the “Stroke Belt” were 31 percent less likely than those living elsewhere to receive tPA.
Researchers
also found that patients discharged from a designated stroke center or a
hospital participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The
Guidelines®─Stroke program were more likely to receive tPA. Likewise,
patients were more likely to receive tPA at large, urban, or teaching
hospitals compared to hospitals discharged from small, rural, or
non-teaching hospitals.
Madsen said that the growing number of hospitals participating in the
Get With The Guidelines®─Stroke program and legislation requiring
emergency services to take stroke patients to regional stroke centers
are likely to increase the number of patients receiving tPA.
“Some previous studies have found that up to three-fourths of
patients arrived after the time window for tPA had closed,” Madsen said.
“Many patients across all groups do not arrive at the hospital in time,
but this is particularly true for underrepresented minorities.”
An important limitation of the study data is that researchers could
not determine why patients did not receive tPA. The study is also
limited because we were not able to adjust for patient level factors
such as time to arrival and other tPA exclusion criteria, stroke
severity, patient education, and socioeconomic status. “More research
needs to be done to help figure out why many patients do not receive
tPA,” Madsen said.
“There is also a lot of work to do in the realm of stroke education
so that patients recognize stroke symptoms and call EMS immediately,”
Madsen said.
According to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and
Stroke Statistical Update, 795,000 Americans have a stroke every year,
causing almost 129,000 deaths. Residents of the Stroke Belt—Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia—suffer even higher
rates of stroke and stroke death.
The National Inpatient Sample is the largest publicly available database of inpatient health care in the U.S.
Coauthors are Shannon Melluzo, B.A.; Charles R. Wira III, M.D.;
Zainab Magdon-Ismail, Ed.M., M.P.H.; David Day, B.S.; and Toby I.
Gropen, M.D.
Author disclosures are on the abstract.
The study was funded by the American Heart Association/American
Stroke Association Founders Affiliate, and the Northeast Cerebrovascular
Consortium.
http://newsroom.heart.org/news/many-stroke-patients-do-not-receive-life-saving-therapy?preview=13bffffcc15f8d35a03f7314a3b1eded
Full bibliographic informationAHA/ASA
International Stroke Conference 2017 Session A17 - Abstract 116
Minorities, Women, and Stroke Belters Left Behind in t-PA Use Despite
Quality Improvement Efforts
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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.
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