Failures and Successes in a Stroke Program • The activities toward stroke prevention and improving stroke care at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center of Portland, Oregon, for the past ten years are described. The program was multifaceted and included a stroke clinic, a stroke care unit, a course for nurses from throughout the state of Oregon and southwestern Washington, panel discussions...

INTRODUCTION According to the Spanish Stroke Health Care Plan and the Spanish Health National Service Stroke Strategy, thrombolysis should only be performed in hospitals with Stroke Units. However, the Andalusian Stroke Health Care Plan includes, within the list of services of the Stroke Team, the need to have a neurologist present for the performing of thrombolysis in local hospitals. The obje...

Abstract BACKGROUND Stroke is common in patients with malignancy, but cancer treatment have contraindications to intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Advancements endovascular therapy (EVT) has expanded options for acute stroke management . Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) a center without public emergency room. Acute occurs inpatient or urgent care (UCC). We determined need rapid...

BACKGROUND To provide a preliminary estimate of efficacy of constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) when compared to no-intervention in patients with chronic (>1 year) post-stroke aphasia in order to plan an appropriately powered randomized controlled trial (RCT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a pilot single-blinded RCT. 24 patients were randomized: 14 to CIAT and 10 to no-intervention....

The purpose of this case report is to describe attempts to prevent skin-related adverse events from occurring and protect the skin once breakdown occurred in a person with chronic stroke during locomotor training. There is scant literature in how to address skin during locomotor training with the Lokomat(®), particularly when a patient presents with sensory deficits and frail skin. The patient ...

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 17 No 1 March 2008 From the Stroke Intensive Care Unit, Section of Neurovascular Diseases Veterans General Hospital-Taipei National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Wen Jang Wong, MD. Section of Neurovascular Diseases, Veterans General HospitalTaipei, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shipai Road, Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: wjwo...