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Rapid detection and appropriate emergency medical care are essential for optimizing health outcomes. [1] When available, patients are admitted to an acute stroke unit for treatment. These units specialize in providing medical and surgical care aimed at stabilizing the patient's medical status. [2]
Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status by a licensed Registered Nurse. Nursing assessment is the first step in the nursing process. A section of the nursing assessment may be delegated to certified nurses aides.
Assessment methods [ edit ] The six component stages of the Brunnstrom Approach [ 1 ] have influenced the development of a variety of standardized assessment methods used by physiotherapists and occupational therapists to evaluate and track the progress of persons recovering from stroke.
When it comes to stroke prevention, the guideline stresses the need for risk assessment—including with a risk assessment calculator that estimates 10-year and 30-year stroke and heart disease ...
Given the disease burden of stroke, prevention is an important public health concern. [86] Primary prevention is less effective than secondary prevention (as judged by the number needed to treat to prevent one stroke per year). [86] Recent guidelines detail the evidence for primary prevention in stroke. [87]
Preventive healthcare strategies are described as taking place at the primal, [2] primary, [13] secondary, and tertiary prevention levels. Although advocated as preventive medicine in the early twentieth century by Sara Josephine Baker, [14] in the 1940s, Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark coined the term primary prevention.
Now, the American Stroke Association has released new guidelines to help lower the risk someone will have a stroke, noting that up to 80% of strokes are preventable.
The Bobath concept is an approach to neurological rehabilitation that is applied in patient assessment and treatment (such as with adults after stroke [1] or children with cerebral palsy [2]). The goal of applying the Bobath concept is to promote motor learning for efficient motor control in various environments, thereby improving participation ...