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Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals more likely to provide guideline-recommended treatment
(American Heart Association) Award-winning Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals are more likely than Primary Stroke Center certified hospitals to provide all the recommended guideline-based care for patients.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 14, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai named to new NIH Stroke Research Network
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is an inaugural member of the NIH's Stroke Trials Network. It will receive a 5-year, $1.3 million grant to build a collaborative research infrastructure for a NYC regional coordinating stroke center.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - December 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Contralateral needling at unblocked collaterals for post-stroke hemiplegia
(Neural Regeneration Research) Professor Huanmin Gao and co-workers from People's Hospital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China performed contralateral needling at acupoints Chize (LU5) and Jianliao (TE14) in 106 stroke patients presenting complete hemiplegia and found that contralateral needling at these two acupoints can significantly promote the recovery of affected limb function of stroke patients with therapeutic effects superior to conventional acupuncture.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 28, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
The effects of mirror therapy on the gait of subacute stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial - Ji SG, Kim MK.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of mirror therapy on the gait of patients with subacute stroke. DESIGN: Randomized controlled experimental study. SETTING: Outpatient rehabilitation hospital. SUBJECTS: Thirty-four patients with stroke were rand...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 17, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Nurse staffing and mortality in stroke centers
(PLOS) Hospital staffing levels have been associated with patient outcomes, but staffing on weekends has not been well studied. To helpaddress the paucity of research, Dr. Benjamin Bray of King's College London and Royal College of Physicians, UK, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study of weekend staffing with stroke specialist physicians for patients admitted to 103 stroke units in England, published in this issue of PLOS Medicine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
In-Patient Hospital Costs of Stroke: A Focused Literature Review
The objective of this literature review was to delineate the costing methodologies employed for the estimation of in-patient hospital costs of stroke.
Source: Value in Health - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: P. Kritikou, K. Vemmos, K.A. Payne Source Type: research
NEJM editorial: New studies about endovascular therapy for stroke represent paradigm shift
(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) In an editorial, entitled Endovascular Stroke Therapy: It's About Time, Anthony Furlan, M.D., states that five new studies about endovascular stroke therapy demonstrate the therapy is highly beneficial in a 'resounding fashion.'
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 17, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Saving critical time diagnosing stroke patients with MRI by borrowing 'lean' principles
(MedStar Washington Hospital Center) Few hospitals around the world routinely use MRI first-line for acute stroke diagnosis because of treatment delay concerns. This is the first study to report that, by applying 'lean' process interventions, it is feasible to use MRI before administering a life-saving drug to stroke patients within 60 minutes of hospital arrival.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 13, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
WATCHMAN device gives patients alternative to blood thinners and reduces stroke risk
(MedStar Washington Hospital Center) MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center was the first in the Washington metropolitan region to implant the newly approved WATCHMAN Device. The new device is designed to prevent stroke in high-risk patients with atrial fibrillation who are seeking an alternative to blood-thinning medication. Blood thinners are effective in stroke risk reductions for A-fib patients, but many cannot tolerate these drugs because of the risk of bleeding. Now, there's a new option.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 2, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Analysis Of In-Hospital Resource Use After An Ischemic Stroke
To investigate the resources used by ischemic stroke patients when hospitalized, and examine this relationship by stroke severity. Comparing a bottom-up costing approach with national top-down costs.
Source: Value in Health - October 23, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: S Dewilde, L Annemans, V Thijs Source Type: research
Correlation between balance and gait according to pelvic displacement in stroke patients - Kong SW, Jeong YW, Kim JY.
[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations of balance and gait according to pelvic displacement in stroke patients. [Subjects] The subjects of this study were 58 stroke patients who had been admitted to a hospital. [Methods] A ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
New research gathers more evidence for innovative stroke treatment
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) New research has provided more evidence that an innovative treatment strategy may help prevent brain swelling and death in stroke patients. J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
One-leg standing time of the affected side moderately predicts for postdischarge falls in community stroke patients - Yoshimoto Y, Oyama Y, Tanaka M, Sakamoto A.
BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictive accuracy of one-leg standing time at hospital discharge on falls in stroke patients. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study. Participants included stroke patient...
Source: SafetyLit - May 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Alcohol-related hospitalization associated with doubled stroke risk in atrial fibrillation
(European Society of Cardiology) Alcohol-related hospitalization is associated with a doubled risk of ischemic stroke risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today by Dr. Faris Al-Khalili, cardiologist, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. The observational study was conducted in more than 25,000 non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients at low risk of stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Predictors of track test performance in drivers with stroke - Kobayashi Y, Omokute Y, Mitsuyama A, Takaoka Y, Takama C, Watanabe Y.
AIM: To identify in-house assessment criteria to predict outcomes of driving tests in patients with stroke who wish to resume driving. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of 181 patients with stroke who attended Fukui General Hospital (as outpatients or inpatien...
Source: SafetyLit - September 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
