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Mobile stroke units: taking stroke care to the patient
Purpose of review Since the development of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), functional outcome has improved when treatment occurs within 4.5 h of stroke onset and treatment benefits are greater with earlier treatment. Endovascular revascularization also is better the sooner it is delivered. Recent findings The Get with the Guidelines Stroke registry found that less than one-third of treatment-eligible AIS patients receive intravenous tPA within 60 min of hospital arrival. Initiatives have tried to improve public education and awareness of stroke symptoms to decrease t...
Source: Current Opinion in Critical Care - March 6, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: ACUTE NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS: Edited by Peter Le Roux Source Type: research

Predictors of quality of life for chronic stroke survivors in relation to cultural differences: a literature review
ConclusionsMost predictors of QoL in stroke survivors were the same in China and the Western countries. However, their QoL might be predicted differently regarding to the individualistic and collectivistic cultural differences.
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences - June 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Rongrong Wang, Birgitta Langhammer Tags: Review Article Source Type: research