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A practical guide to comprehensive stroke care : meeting population needs / principal editor, Lalit Kalra ; co-editors, Charles Wolfe, Anthony Rudd.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cerebrovascular disease--Treatment.
- Cerebrovascular disease.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written for health professionals and managers involved in the planning or provision of stroke care, this book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the evidence and practices that underpin high quality stroke care. It sets the scene by describing the epidemiology, trends and needs of stroke patients, followed by chapters on the prevention of stroke, investigation and management of TIAs (transient ischaemic attack), early management and thrombolysis, clinical management of acute stroke patients and rehabilitation. Each chapter is thematically-linked and provides a complete, up-
- Contents:
- Foreword; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 The Size of the Problem Keerthi Mohan, Siobhan Crichton, Kethakie Sumathipala, Christopher McKevitt and Charles Wolfe; 2 Strategies for Stroke Prevention Juliet Addo and Charles Wolfe; 3 Transient Ischaemic Attacks Matthew F. Giles and Peter M. Rothwell; 4 Early Identification and Presentation to Hospital Helen Rodgers and Chris Price; 5 Hyperacute Management of Stroke Jonathan Birns and Ajay Bhalla; 6 Malignant Stroke Syndrome Dulka Manawadu; 7 Stroke Unit Care Ian Wellwood and Peter Langhorne; 8 Stroke Rehabilitation Lalit Kalra and Ruth Harris
- 9 Long-Term Management of Stroke Kethakie Sumathipala, Siobhan Crichton, Keerthi Mohan, Charles Wolfe and Christopher McKevitt10 Caregiver Needs and Their Management in Stroke Anne Forster; 11 Meeting the Palliative Care Needs of Stroke Patients Irene J. Higginson; 12 Benchmarking and Improving Stroke Services Anthony G. Rudd and Alex Hoffman; 13 New Horizons in Stroke Lalit Kalra; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613144386
- 9781283144384
- 1283144387
- 9789814299527
- 9814299529
- OCLC:
- 741492795
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