Deans' stroke musings: Weekend Admission Tied to Higher Stroke Mortality

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.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Weekend Admission Tied to Higher Stroke Mortality

So plan your stroke accordingly along with making sure you have ALL THE CLASSIC SIGNS; drooping mouth, slurred speech, one side not working. You have to make damn sure your doctors recognize you have a stroke. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, NOT YOUR DOCTORS!

Weekend Admission Tied to Higher Stroke Mortality

HealthDay News — Patients admitted for hemorrhagic stroke on weekends have higher in-hospital mortality than those admitted on weekdays, according to a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases.

Birook Mekonnen, M.P.H., from the University of Georgia in Athens, and colleagues used data from the 2016 National Inpatient Sample to compare in-hospital weekend stroke admissions (ischemic or hemorrhagic) to weekday admissions.

The researchers found that crude stroke mortality was higher with weekend admissions. When adjusting for confounding variables, in-hospital mortality for hemorrhagic stroke patients was significantly greater for weekend admissions versus weekday admissions (22.0 versus 20.2 percent). Findings were similar for hemorrhagic stroke patients treated at rural hospitals (36.9 percent for weekend versus 25.7 percent for weekday admissions) and urban hospitals (21.1 versus 19.6 percent). For ischemic stroke, there was no difference seen for weekend versus weekday admissions at either rural or urban hospitals.

“Factors such as density of care providers, stroke centers, and patient level risky behaviors associated with the weekend effect on hemorrhagic stroke mortality need further investigation to improve stroke care services and reduce weekend effect on hemorrhagic stroke mortality,” the authors write.

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