Deans' stroke musings: Immanuel is 4th U.S. hospital to earn stroke certification; docs call procedure a game-changer

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.

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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.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Immanuel is 4th U.S. hospital to earn stroke certification; docs call procedure a game-changer

SO FUCKING WHAT? 'Procedures' NOT RESULTS Do stroke hospitals think we are that fucking stupid that we don't notice that this tells us nothing about the quality of their stroke department?
https://omaha.com/livewellnebraska/health/immanuel-is-th-u-s-hospital-to-earn-stroke-certification/article_5cfd8ad7-c0a0-51b2-9371-b1be86110a11.html

Immanuel Medical Center has become the fourth hospital in the country to earn a new certification indicating that it meets rigorous standards for treating stroke patients using a procedure that targets clots blocking large vessels in the brain.

The procedure, called a mechanical endovascular thrombectomy, involves threading a catheter through an artery in the groin to the brain to snare the clot and draw it out.

Doctors have called it a game-changer when it comes to treating such blockages.

Dr. Vishal Jani, an interventional neurologist at Immanuel, which houses the CHI Health Neurological Institute, said strokes caused by clots represent up to 90 percent of strokes.

“This holds the center to the highest standard,” Jani said.

The designation as a thrombectomy-capable stroke center recognizes that the hospital has the infrastructure and protocols in place to perform the procedure.(So fucking what? You don't tell us your results, so every patient could die and you would still be recognized?)

To be eligible to apply for the certification, hospitals have to meet strict guidelines, including performing the procedure on a minimum of 15 patients in the past year or 30 in the past two years. They also must demonstrate the ability to perform the procedure 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The physicians who perform the procedure must meet the highest standard of training.

The Joint Commission, in collaboration with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, began offering the new certification Jan. 1.

Nebraska in 2017 established a statewide stroke treatment system that designated hospitals according to their ability to provide various elements of stroke treatment. The system also established protocols to help emergency responders evaluate patients and select the hospital that can provide the appropriate level of care.

The Nebraska Medical Center in November 2017 earned designation as a comprehensive stroke center. The nation’s highest designation for stroke care, a comprehensive center must be able to handle both clot-caused and hemorrhagic strokes at any time.