Stroke numbers: Basic Truths and Evasions

12 – 6 - 12 : 13 - 6 – 12. MY STROKE

Developed over two days as a result of my clot developing over midnight.

3 hours. The neurologist said if my stroke happened before that time, there was a treatment available which would help recovery. After a phone hookup to home we all murmured assent. 10% possibility of adverse reaction. No worries! This was your non-introduction to Thrombolysis: The procedure was carried out O.K I would not be so naïve again!

3% + 3% 2015 – 2017 increase per year for thrombolysis. Does this meagre result mean that the usual clot dissolving method is in trouble? Apparently not. But I think the technique is too difficult for all but a few physicians. I could be wrong but when figures about the size of the margin error in surveys appear, something is wrong and something should be done. Agree?

30% 60 minutes – Thrombolysis “Acute services report 2017” sounds good but will the results show in the % usage results. Not waiting.

3,4, and 4.5 hours delay between time of stroke and thrombolysis, now, as A layperson student of clot stroke, I have shown conclusively that once the flow of arterial blood ceases, adjacent brain cells begin to die. Check with a medical writer. At the distal end of the clot, blood movement stops, effectively increasing the length of the clot and increases the length of damaged brain inch which increases bodily damage. Clear?

I assert 4.5 hours without blood to the brain is equivalent to no thrombolysis – just letting nature take its course.

So stop writing this 2.4 4.5 hour nonsense! 7 hours delay in a paragraph at the end of the an article it was suggested that the catheter and clasping stent method of cleaning up stray plaque left after thrombolysis that it could be used to clear the whole clot with a 7 hour delay, making it useless.

Angus