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Immediately After A Stroke, Your Next Steps Are Crucial
By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) - Time is critical when someone has a stroke, but care can be delayed when victims, bystanders or even health workers don't recognize the emergency, a new study in the UK finds. Better public awareness of the signs of stroke and the importance of seeking immediate emergency care are needed, the authors say. Stroke signs include the sudden onset of various symptoms such as confusion, difficulty speaking, droopy face or slurred speech, weakness in a limb, numbness, being off-balance, visual loss or a really severe headache. "Getting to hospital quickly is...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 12, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news

The DARS (Dopamine Augmented Rehabilitation in Stroke) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of Co-careldopa treatment in addition to routine NHS occupational and physical therapy after stroke
DiscussionThe DARS trial will provide evidence as to whether Co-careldopa, in addition to routine NHS occupational and physical therapy, leads to a greater recovery of motor function, a reduction in carer dependency and advance rehabilitation treatments for people with stroke.Trial registration: ISRCTN99643613 assigned on 4 December 2009.
Source: Trials - August 8, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Bipin BhaktaSuzanne HartleyIvana HollowayJ CouzensGary FordDavid MeadsCatherine SackleyMarion WalkerSharon RuddockAmanda Farrin Source Type: research

Innovations in major system reconfiguration in England: a study of the effectiveness, acceptability and processes of implementation of two models of stroke care
This study will analyse processes involved in making significant changes to stroke care services over a short time period, and the factors influencing these processes. We will examine whether the changes have delivered improvements in quality of care and patient outcomes; and, in light of this, whether the significant extra financial investment represented good value for money. Methods: This study brings together quantitative data on 'what works and at what cost?' with qualitative data on 'understanding implementation and sustainability' to understand major system change in two large conurbations in England. Data on proces...
Source: BioMed Central - January 5, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Naomi FulopRuth BoadenRachael HunterChristopher McKevittSteve MorrisNanik PursaniAngus IG RamsayAnthony G RuddPippa J TyrrellCharles Wolfe Source Type: research

Content Analysis of Patient Safety Incident Reports for Older Adult Patient Transfers, Handovers, and Discharges: Do They Serve Organizations, Staff, or Patients?
Objective The aim of the study was to analyze content of incident reports during patient transitions in the context of care of older people, cardiology, orthopedics, and stroke. Methods A structured search strategy identified incident reports involving patient transitions (March 2014–August 2014, January 2015–June 2015) within 2 National Health Service Trusts (in upper and lower quartiles of incident reports/100 admissions) in care of older people, cardiology, orthopedics, and stroke. Content analysis identified the following: incident classifications; active failures; latent conditions; patient/relative inv...
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - December 1, 2021 Category: Health Management Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research

A Hidden Danger In The New Versions Of Birth Control Pills
Women who take a newer version of birth control pills have a doubled risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots, according to a new study published in the British medical journal BMJ. Venous thromboembolism is a serious condition that encompasses both deep vein thrombosis -- when a person develops a blood clot in the legs -- and pulmonary embolism, in which the clot travels to the lungs and obstructs breathing. VTE is potentially fatal, and the study indicates that women who take combined oral contraceptives with newer progesterone formulations are two times more likely to develop it as opposed to women who take a ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 27, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

AlzEye: longitudinal record-level linkage of ophthalmic imaging and hospital admissions of 353 157 patients in London, UK
Purpose Retinal signatures of systemic disease (‘oculomics’) are increasingly being revealed through a combination of high-resolution ophthalmic imaging and sophisticated modelling strategies. Progress is currently limited not mainly by technical issues, but by the lack of large labelled datasets, a sine qua non for deep learning. Such data are derived from prospective epidemiological studies, in which retinal imaging is typically unimodal, cross-sectional, of modest number and relates to cohorts, which are not enriched with subpopulations of interest, such as those with systemic disease. We thus linked longitu...
Source: BMJ Open - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wagner, S. K., Hughes, F., Cortina-Borja, M., Pontikos, N., Struyven, R., Liu, X., Montgomery, H., Alexander, D. C., Topol, E., Petersen, S. E., Balaskas, K., Hindley, J., Petzold, A., Rahi, J. S., Denniston, A. K., Keane, P. A. Tags: Open access, Ophthalmology Source Type: research