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Managing post-stroke care during the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary care level hospital in Peru
Objectives: To understand the hospital-to-outpatient care transition and how the discharge process of stroke patients is managed; and to identify potential opportunities to improve these processes, while contrasting pre- and during COVID-19 experiences in Peru.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted between February and March 2021 consisting of in-depth interviews of patients with stroke, their caregivers and healthcare personnel regarding stroke care at a national tertiary referral center for stroke care in Lima, Peru.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - December 23, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Jessica Hanae Zafra-Tanaka, Jill Portocarrero, Carlos Abanto, Joseph R. Zunt, J. Jaime Miranda Source Type: research

An international cluster randomized quality-improvement trial to increase the adherence to evidence-based therapies for acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: Rationale and design of the BRIDGE STROKE trial
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2018Source: American Heart JournalAuthor(s): Maria Julia Machline-Carrion, Eliana Vieira Santucci, Lucas Petri Damiani, Cecilia Bahit, Germán Málaga, Octávio Marques Ponte-Neto, Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins, Viviane Flumignan Zétola, Karina Normilio-Silva, Gabriel Rodrigues de Freitas, Alessandra Gorgulho, Antônio De Salles, Beatriz Gonzales Pacheco da Silva, Juliana Yamashita Santos, Isabella de Andrade Jesuíno, Priscila Regina Torres Bueno, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, Hélio Penna Guimarães, Ying Xian, Janet Prvu BettgerAbstractBackgroundTranslating evidence into...
Source: American Heart Journal - October 4, 2018 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

An international cluster-randomized quality improvement trial to increase the adherence to evidence-based therapies for acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: Rationale and design of the BRIDGE STROKE Trial
Publication date: January 2019Source: American Heart Journal, Volume 207Author(s): Maria Julia Machline-Carrion, Eliana Vieira Santucci, Lucas Petri Damiani, Cecilia Bahit, Germán Málaga, Octávio Marques Pontes-Neto, Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins, Viviane Flumignan Zétola, Karina Normilio-Silva, Gabriel Rodrigues de Freitas, Alessandra Gorgulho, Antônio De Salles, Beatriz Gonzales Pacheco da Silva, Juliana Yamashita Santos, Isabella de Andrade Jesuíno, Priscila Regina Torres Bueno, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, Hélio Penna Guimarães, Ying Xian, Janet Prvu BettgerBackgroundTranslating evidence into clinical practic...
Source: American Heart Journal - November 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

One year prognosis after suffering the onset of cerebrovascular disease in patients from a public hospital in Lima, Peru.
Authors: Alvarado-Dulanto CM, Lazo Mde L, Loza-Herrera JD, Málaga G Abstract In Latin America, there is almost nonexistense information about the prognosis of patients with stroke. We tried to find one- year vital and functional prognosis from patients with "first-ever stroke". We did a prospective cohort study, recruiting patients in the medicine service of a public hospital, and follow them up to one year after their first-ever stroke. We collected baseline data, such as previous medical history and information about their stroke. We found mortality proportions, differences among subgroups, and compared their ac...
Source: Revista Peruana de Medicina de Experimental y Salud Publica - December 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica Source Type: research

Iron Metabolism and Brain Development in Premature Infants
Yafeng Wang1,2,3, Yanan Wu2, Tao Li1,2,3, Xiaoyang Wang2,4 and Changlian Zhu2,3* 1Department of Neonatology (NICU), Children’s Hospital Affiliated Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China 2Henan Key Laboratory of Child Brain Injury, Institute of Neuroscience and Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China 3Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden 4Department of Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Got...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 24, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research