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.

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Insertable Cardiac Monitor Detects ‘Silent’ Atrial Fibrillation in High-Risk Patients:

Something to discuss with your doctor. I bet this is better than the apps available on your smartphone.
http://dgnews.docguide.com/insertable-cardiac-monitor-detects-silent-atrial-fibrillation-high-risk-patients?
May 16, 2017
By Louise Gagnon
CHICAGO -- May 16, 2017 -- The use of an insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) was effective in detecting “silent” atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients at high risk for AF and stroke, according to a study presented here at the 38th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS).
“Atrial fibrillation unknown by patients or physicians is not uncommon,” said James A. Reiffel, MD, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York. “Patients can have AF without having symptoms, so they do not present themselves [to physicians]. There are a significant number of strokes that present without a prior history of AF. Lo and behold, you evaluate patients and find out that they have AF.”
The prospective, single-arm, multicentre study evaluated the presence and quantified the incidence of AF lasting at least 6 minutes in patients with unrecognised AF but at high risk for AF, such as patients with heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, and vascular disease.
The main outcome from the study was detection of AF at 18 months with secondary outcomes being detection rates from 30 days to 30 months. The researchers also looked at detection rates stratified by patients CHADS2 scores.
A total of 385 patients received an ICM and were followed for 22.5 months. The AF detection rate at 18 months was 29.3% with the rate as high as 40.0% at 30 months.
“The yield of the device is impressive,” said Dr. Reiffel, noting that 30 days of monitoring is often not sufficient to detect AF.
The AF detection rate did not differ by CHADS2 scores (P = .23). The median time from the time of insertion of the ICM to identification of the first AF episode was 123 days.
The technology was extremely well-tolerated, and its use did not produce any adverse events, said Dr. Reiffel.
More than half of the patients were prescribed oral anticoagulants after the identification of AF to reduce the risk of stroke.
Funding for this study was provided by Medtronic, Inc.
[Presentation title: High Incidence of Previously Unknown (Silent) Atrial Fibrillation in Patients at High Risk for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: Primary Results From the REVEAL-AF study. Abstract C-LBCT02-05]

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