Deans' stroke musings: Regional Queensland to receive new life-saving Telestroke service

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.

Monday, July 10, 2023

Regional Queensland to receive new life-saving Telestroke service

It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to infiltrate the Stroke Foundation and DEMAND 100% RECOVERY. This tyranny of low expectations of just good recovery needs to stop. Whomever is in charge now will want 100% recovery when they are the 1 in 4 per WHO that has a stroke!

When you have a stroke you'll want recovery and you'll kick yourself for not doing that job when you could.

Regional Queensland to receive new life-saving Telestroke service

Stroke Foundation

Regional and remote Queenslanders will soon have access to a life-saving service that will increase their chances of survival and a good recovery after having a stroke.

The Queensland Government today announced it will roll out a $5.8M Telestroke service which will provide survivors of stroke immediate access to Queensland’s best stroke specialist doctors for assessment and advice on initial treatments.

Stroke Foundation Chief Executive Officer, Dr Lisa Murphy, says this is a welcome and critical addition to Queensland’s current stroke services.

” We applaud the Queensland Government’s decision to implement Telestroke and know it will go a long way in giving people right across Queensland equal access to specialist stroke assessment and treatment.

Queensland Health’s Telestroke service, which will launch in 2024, will allow stroke specialists to review brain scans and assess patients remotely via video to diagnose and decide on a treatment plan as quickly as possible.

“Access to Telestroke both increases the rate of thrombolysis or clot busting medication, administered in regional hospitals and increases the speed at which this time-critical treatment is given. This translates to less death and disability following stroke,” Dr Murphy said.

The service will support approximately two million Queenslanders who live in regional and rural areas who have minimal or no stroke specialist coverage locally to manage acute stroke presentations.

“Regional Australians are 17 per cent more likely to experience a stroke than people living in metropolitan areas so it is critical that Australians, regardless of their postcode, have access to equitable and immediate stroke treatment and that’s exactly what Telestroke will deliver.”

The Stroke Foundation is proud to have been working with the Queensland Government for two decades providing support to hospital stroke teams to improve stroke care.(NOT RESULTS OR RECOVERY!)