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Stroke Heroes 2016
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Puget Sound Division, along with our sponsor Medtronic, congratulates the honorees for this year's Stroke Hero Awards. We had amazing stories sent to us. Thank you to all of you who submitted a nomination. Here are some of the inspiring individuals honored this year as a Stroke Hero. AMY MOORE, Stroke Survivor Amy is described as a truly an inspiring person who has never let her stroke stop her from accomplishing her goals. Her stroke was diagnosed at six months of age and left her legally blind. Amy learned Braille during her first two years of high school an...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cohort profile: the Finnish Medication and Alzheimer's disease (MEDALZ) study
Purpose The aim of the Medicine use and Alzheimer's disease (MEDALZ) study is to investigate the changes in medication and healthcare service use among persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of medications in this group. This is important, because the number of persons with AD is rapidly growing and even though they are a particularly vulnerable patient group, the number of representative, large-scale studies with adequate follow-up time is limited. Participants MEDALZ contains all residents of Finland who received a clinically verified diagnosis of AD between 2005 and 2011 and ...
Source: BMJ Open - July 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tolppanen, A.-M., Taipale, H., Koponen, M., Lavikainen, P., Tanskanen, A., Tiihonen, J., Hartikainen, S. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology, Neurology, Pharmacology and therapeutics Cohort profile Source Type: research

African American Women And Uterine Fibroids: Why More Awareness Is Needed To Overcome This Health Disparity
African American women are nearly three times more likely to develop uterine fibroids and suffer with severe symptoms like heavy menstrual bleeding, anemia, and pelvic pain. From interfering with daily activities to negatively affecting intimate relationships, fibroids have a much more dramatic impact on black women in comparison to women of other races. Given these realities, many are left questioning why fibroid research has lagged in the past and what's being done now to overcome this all-too-common health disparity. "One of the issues with fibroid research is that, because it's built as a disease process that mostly ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Association Between Metacognition and Mood Symptoms Poststroke
Discussion: Metacognition is a better determinant of mood symptoms after stroke, especially in regions where illiteracy levels are high in older populations, in comparison to executive function and global cognition.
Source: Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology - June 14, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Donnellan, C., Al Banna, M., Redha, N., Al Sharoqi, I., Al-Jishi, A., Bakhiet, M., Taha, S., Abdulla, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

A Day in the Life of an Acute Care SLP
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a guest blog post that originally appeared on Tactus Therapy. In the post, speech-language pathologist Brenda Arend shares highlights of a typical day working in acute care at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington. 8:30 a.m.: Assigning patients The first part of my day is spent opening up patient charts in our EPIC electronic medical record and assigning three SLPs to see patients in our 380-bed hospital. Two or three SLPs cover a caseload that ranges from 15 to 30 patients, although recently we see as many as 42. In addition, we also provide outpatient video fluo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Brenda Arend Tags: Speech-Language Pathology acute care Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Dysphagia Health Care Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

Dementia risk after spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage: a prospective cohort study
Publication date: July 2016 Source:The Lancet Neurology, Volume 15, Issue 8 Author(s): Solène Moulin, Julien Labreuche, Stéphanie Bombois, Costanza Rossi, Gregoire Boulouis, Hilde Hénon, Alain Duhamel, Didier Leys, Charlotte Cordonnier Background Dementia occurs in at least 10% of patients within 1 year after stroke. However, the risk of dementia after spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage that accounts for about 15% of all strokes has not been investigated in prospective studies. We aimed to determine the incidence of dementia and risk factors after an intracerebral haemorrhage. Methods We did a prospective...
Source: The Lancet Neurology - June 6, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Tourette's Syndrome: More Than Meets The Ears
What do you know about Tourette's syndrome? That it causes involuntary swearing? While this is true in some cases, there is so much more to the neurological condition than most people realize. In fact, uncontrollable swearing or yelling of socially unacceptable phrases - known as coprolalia - only occurs in around 10 to 15 percent of individuals with Tourette's syndrome (TS). Despite affecting relatively few people with TS, coprolalia is perceived as one of the main symptoms of the condition. It is this misconception, among a number of others, that has fueled a stereotype of people with TS. "The reality is that Toure...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Simulation Training in Early Emergency Response (STEER).
This study aimed to test a simulation curriculum based on institutional priorities using high-intensity, short-duration, frequent in situ content delivery based on deliberate practice. The study design was a prospective, single-center, mixed-methods quasi-experimental study. Scenarios used in this study were ventricular fibrillation, opiate-related respiratory depression, syncopal fall, and hemorrhagic stroke. The convenience sample included 41 teams (147 participants). Improvements were noted in initiating chest compressions (p = .018), time to check blood glucose (p = .046), and identification of heparin as a contributor...
Source: Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing - May 29, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Generoso JR, Latoures RE, Acar Y, Miller DS, Ciano M, Sandrei R, Vieira M, Luong S, Hirsch J, Fidler RL Tags: J Contin Educ Nurs Source Type: research

Different stroke(s)
A 13-year-old boy with mild learning difficulties presented to his district general hospital after an unwitnessed episode of collapse with vomiting but no loss of consciousness. He had 3 days of lethargy and intermittent occipital headaches waking him from sleep. Two days later, after another ‘funny turn’, he represented with right-side paraesthesia, weakness and word-finding difficulty. He had three previous ‘collapses’ over the last 6 months, including symptoms of transient dizziness, slurred speech, dribbling, difficulty swallowing and left-facial paraesthesia from which he had recovere...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - May 17, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Mundada, V., Krishnakumar, D., Chitre, M., Das, T. Tags: Oncology, Eye Diseases, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Echocardiography, Headache (including migraine), Infection (neurology), Neurooncology, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Hypertension, Ophthalmology, Valvar diseases, Radiology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Clin Source Type: research

Florida Firefighters Spread Word about Strokes
PALM BEACH GARDENS - Beverly Jarrell says she has recovered completely from a stroke because her family responded quickly when she was stricken. The 79-year-old Palm Beach Gardens woman remembers spending what seemed to be a normal evening with family at home in December. Then she struggled to speak. The next thing Jarrell remembered was her husband and son helping her as an ambulance arrived. Her husband, Bobby, had promptly called 911. "I cannot tell you how grateful I am to have recovered 100 percent," she said last week while sharing her story at a Stroke Awareness Month event at Palm Beach State Col...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - May 17, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Source Type: news

Journal Club: Time trends in incidence, case fatality, and mortality of intracerebral hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remains one of the most catastrophic stroke subtypes, with high case-fatality rate and poor functional outcomes. In the Journal Club article "Time trends in incidence, case fatality, and mortality of intracerebral hemorrhage" by Jolink et al.,1 hospital and population registries were used to assess age- and sex-specific trends in incidence and case fatality of patients with ICH in the Netherlands. The study provides a significant epidemiologic contribution examining a large cohort of patients with ICH from 1980 to 2010. The authors report a decline in incidence, case-fatality, and mortality r...
Source: Neurology - May 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Charidimou, A., Morotti, A., Valenti, R., Giese, A.-K., Boulouis, G., Pasi, M., Roongpiboonsopit, D., Lauer, A., Xiong, L., Van Harten, T. W., Karadeli, H., Fotiadis, P., Jessel, M. J., Viswanathan, A. Tags: All Cerebrovascular disease/Stroke, All Education, Intracerebral hemorrhage RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

10-year trajectories of depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: a population-based study
We examined a cohort of participants who were free from dementia, but had data for depressive symptoms from at least one examination round in 1993–95, 1997–99, or 2002–04. We assessed depressive symptoms with the validated Dutch version of the Center for Epidemiology Depression Scale (CES-D) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-Depression. We used these data to identify 11-year trajectories of depressive symptoms by latent class trajectory modelling. We screened participants for dementia at each examination round and followed up participants for 10 years for incident dementia by latent trajectory from the th...
Source: The Lancet Psychiatry - May 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Focal point emergency departments.
Abstract The number of patients treated in hospital emergency departments in Germany has risen in recent years to approximately 20 million. This escalation also applies to the increasing numbers of patients presenting with neurological symptoms and diseases, which occur in approximately 20 % of emergency patients. In addition to patients with stroke, inflammatory or degenerative central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) disorders who need urgent treatment, more and more patients with nonspecific complaints or conditions attend emergency departments for elective treatment, not least becaus...
Source: Der Nervenarzt - May 10, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Lange R, Popp S, Erbguth F Tags: Nervenarzt Source Type: research