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UCLA Health launches pioneering mobile stroke unit with support from L.A. County
Roughly every 40 seconds, someone in the United States will have a stroke. Almost every four minutes, one of those people will die as a result. Against that backdrop, UCLA Health has officially launched the first mobile stroke unit on the West Coast, enabling rapid delivery of brain-saving medications to stroke patients who might otherwise face debilitating delays in treatment. As part of the first phase of a pilot program, the specialized ambulance unit and highly trained personnel began responding in September to select 911 calls in Santa Monica in coordination with the Santa Monica Fire Department. With support from t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 26, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
National Trends, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Acute In-hospital Stroke After Lung Transplantation in the United States: Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Registry
Chest. 2023 Apr 11:S0012-3692(23)00503-2. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.007. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Lung transplantation is the definitive treatment for end-stage lung failure. However, there have been no large, long-term studies on the impact of acute in-hospital stroke in this population.RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the trends, risk factors, and outcomes of acute stroke in patients undergoing lung transplantation in the United States?STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We identified adult first-time, isolated lung transplant (LTx) recipients from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database, which comprehe...
Source: Chest - April 13, 2023 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Benjamin L Shou Christopher Wilcox Isabella Florissi Aravind Krishnan Bo Soo Kim Steven P Keller Glenn J R Whitman Ken Uchino Errol L Bush Sung-Min Cho Source Type: research
Implementation of best practices – Developing and optimizing regional Systems of Stroke Care: Design and methodology
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2020Source: American Heart JournalAuthor(s): Matthew E Ehrlich, Brad J Kolls, Mayme Roettig, Lisa Monk, Shreyansh Shah, Ying Xian, James G Jollis, Christopher B Granger, Carmelo GraffagninoAbstractThe AHA Guidelines recommend developing multi-tiered systems for the care of patients with acute stroke.1 An ideal stroke system of care should ensure that all patients receive the most efficient and timely care, regardless of how they first enter or access the medical care system. Coordination among the components of a stroke system is the most challenging but most essential aspect o...
Source: American Heart Journal - January 16, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Implementation of Best Practices—Developing and Optimizing Regional Systems of Stroke Care: Design and Methodology
Publication date: April 2020Source: American Heart Journal, Volume 222Author(s): Matthew E Ehrlich, Brad J Kolls, Mayme Roettig, Lisa Monk, Shreyansh Shah, Ying Xian, James G Jollis, Christopher B Granger, Carmelo GraffagninoAbstractThe AHA Guidelines recommend developing multi-tiered systems for the care of patients with acute stroke.1 An ideal stroke system of care should ensure that all patients receive the most efficient and timely care, regardless of how they first enter or access the medical care system. Coordination among the components of a stroke system is the most challenging but most essential aspect of any syst...
Source: American Heart Journal - February 4, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research
Use of Outpatient Rehabilitation Among Adult Stroke Survivors - 20 States and the District of Columbia, 2013, and Four States, 2015.
Abstract
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability in the United States (1,2). Approximately 800,000 American adults experience a stroke each year (2,3). Currently, approximately 6 million stroke survivors live in the United States (2). Participation in stroke rehabilitation (rehab), which occurs in diverse settings (i.e., in-hospital, postacute care, and outpatient settings), has been determined to reduce stroke recurrence and improve functional outcomes and quality of life (3,4). Despite longstanding national guidelines recommending stroke rehab, it remains underutilized, especially in the outpatient...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - May 25, 2018 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ayala C, Fang J, Luncheon C, King SC, Chang T, Ritchey M, Loustalot F Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: research
An Inflection Point for Stroke Care
In the past six months, stroke care in the United States has taken an epoch-changing turn. Techniques, technologies, and treatment pathways hinted at in earlier trials have become fully vetted and are a new gold standard giving doctors more time to treat stroke patients and help them regain pre-stroke capabilities.
Two recent trials, especially, DAWN and DEFUSE 3, have precipitated industry-wide shifts in the way hospitals treat stroke, especially acute ischemic stroke.
"I guess the best thing I can say is we have altered our practice here, essentially immediately, based on the results of those studies. I guess that shows ...
Source: MDDI - April 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Greg Goth Tags: Cardiovascular Source Type: news
Practice Patterns and Attitudes Among Speech –Language Pathologists Treating Stroke Patients with Dysphagia: A Nationwide Survey
AbstractDysphagia management is a core component of quality stroke care. Speech –Language Pathologists (SLPs) play a key role in the management of post-stroke dysphagia. We sought to elicit perceptions, attitudes, and practice patterns regarding post-stroke dysphagia management among SLPs in the United States. We conducted a survey among SLPs registered with the American Spee ch–Language–Hearing Association who indicated that they care for acute stroke patients. A total of 336 participants completed the survey. Over half of the participants (58.6%) indicated that they obtain objective swallow testing in ≥ 60% o...
Source: Dysphagia - March 10, 2022 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“His Entire Body Was Shutting Down”: New State Rankings Show Gaps in High School Athlete Safety
By mid-afternoon on August 1, 2017, the temperature in Stockton, Calif. was at least 105 degrees. Thirteen-year-old Jayden Galbert complained to his mother, Shynelle Jones, about the heat, but didn’t want to skip preseason football practice and hurt his chances of making the freshman football team. Instead, he showed up, pushed himself to participate, and then collapsed on the field. “He started vomiting and he was shaking,” Jones says. “He couldn’t see. He was trying to focus, but he couldn’t.” Jayden was eventually airlifted to UC Davis Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with...
Source: TIME: Health - August 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lisa Lewis Tags: Uncategorized health heat stroke high school sports Source Type: news
‘His Entire Body Was Shutting Down.’ New State Rankings Show Gaps in High School Athlete Safety
By mid-afternoon on August 1, 2017, the temperature in Stockton, Calif. was at least 105 degrees. Thirteen-year-old Jayden Galbert complained to his mother, Shynelle Jones, about the heat, but didn’t want to skip preseason football practice and hurt his chances of making the freshman football team. Instead, he showed up, pushed himself to participate, and then collapsed on the field. “He started vomiting and he was shaking,” Jones says. “He couldn’t see. He was trying to focus, but he couldn’t.” Jayden was eventually airlifted to UC Davis Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with...
Source: TIME: Health - August 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lisa Lewis Tags: Uncategorized health heat stroke high school sports Source Type: news
Pharmacists Act on Care Transitions in Stroke (PACT-Stroke): A Systems Approach
This study was a single-center, retrospective assessment of patients contacted by a pharmacist. All data were analyzed descriptively. Our initial evaluation of the Pharmacists Act on Care Transitions in Stroke (PACT-Stroke) service was to quantify and categorize drug-related problems (DRPs), which included drug selection, drug form, dose selection, treatment duration, dispensing, drug use process, patient-related problems, and other. Patients were included if they were adults who experienced an ischemic stroke. Exclusion criteria for this service included pediatric patients, patients with hemorrhagic strokes, patients with...
Source: Clinical Therapeutics - February 16, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Jenna L Harris Danielle DelVecchio Robert W Seabury Christopher D Miller Elizabeth Phillips Source Type: research
Association of ventricular arrhythmia and in-hospital mortality in stroke patients in Florida: A nonconcurrent prospective study
Abstract: Stroke remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Current evidence identified electrocardiographic abnormalities and cardiac arrhythmias in 50% of patients with an acute stroke. The purpose of this study was to assess whether the presence of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) in adult patients hospitalized in Florida with acute stroke increased the risk of in-hospital mortality.
Secondary data analysis of 215,150 patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke hospitalized in the state of Florida collected by the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration from 2008 to 2012. The main outcome for th...
Source: Medicine - July 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research
Acute Stroke: From Prehospital Care to In-Hospital Management
Early recognition of stroke by clinical presentation and prehospital stroke assessment tools facilitate rapid prehospital and ED diagnosis. CanStockPhoto/focalpoint
Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and requires prompt recognition by prehospital providers to ensure rapid transport. Stroke can present in a variety of different ways, some more readily apparent than others.
Delays in diagnosis and treatment can have devastating effects on the outcomes for these patients. In this article, we describe a patient who initially presented with altered mental status and was subsequent...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - May 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Henry G. Colmer IV, MD Tags: Patient Care Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news
