ALLMedicine™ Acute Stroke Center

Jul 22nd, 2021 - Background Obtaining informed consent in people with acute stroke is complex since many, as a direct result of their stroke, lose capacity to make important decisions. Furthermore reperfusion interventions are time dependent necessitating rapid co...

Jul 21st, 2021 - Background Outcomes after stroke as a result of large-vessel occlusion in patients with prestroke disability were compared between endovascular therapy (EVT) and medical management. Methods and Results Of 2420 patients with acute stroke with large...

Jul 20th, 2021 - Delirium is a common complication in acute ischemic stroke, possibly caused by alterations in the regulation of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system. We investigated whether such an association could be demonstrated with two easy-to-use measur...

Jul 20th, 2021 - To investigate the intensity and effectiveness of rehabilitation in acute stroke patients according to the severity of functional impairments in them. This retrospective cohort study included 294 patients with acute hemispheric stroke admitted to ...

Jul 20th, 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic has forced important changes in health care worldwide. Stroke care networks have been affected, especially during peak periods. We assessed the impact of the pandemic and lockdowns in stroke admissions and care in Latin America. ...

Oct 17th, 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic has led to a change in the way we manage acute medical illnesses. This pandemic had a negative impact on stroke care worldwide. The World Stroke Organization (WSO) has raised concerns due to the lack of available care and comprom...

May 19th, 2020 - Patients with acute ischemic stroke are at high-risk for contracting COVID-19 infection. Additionally, healthcare professionals including neurovascular ultrasound providers are also at risk of being infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus. Yet, preparedness ...

May 6th, 2020 - Stroke is an uncommon but an important and under-recognized cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Strokes may be due to either brain ischemia or intracranial hemorrhage. Common symptoms of pediatric acute stroke include headache, vomiting,...

Aug 28th, 2018 - This paper is an abridged and modified version of guidelines produced by the Joint British Diabetes Societies for inpatient care on glycaemic management during the enteral feeding of people with stroke and diabetes. These were revised in 2017 and ...

Dec 8th, 2017 - The reduction of delay between onset and hospital arrival and adequate pre-hospital care of persons with acute stroke are important for improving the chances of a favourable outcome. The objective is to recommend evidence-based practices for the m...

May 4th, 2020 - OBJECTIVE: This is a natural history/disease pathogenesis protocol for evaluation of patients with or at risk for acute stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), or other disturbances of cerebrovascular circulation. The purpose of this protocol is ...

Apr 6th, 2020 - The multi-center, prospective PRODAST study is investigating patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) who experienced an ischemic stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA) recently (≤ 1 week) both with and without previous oral antico...

Mar 24th, 2020 - This is a prospective randomized double-blind sham-controlled study. After enrollment (T-0), patients are randomly placed into the vibration group (VG) or the control group (CG), by using a computer-generated randomization list. VG patients receiv...

Mar 24th, 2020 - Stroke mortality is 20-40% higher in North Carolina (NC) than in the overall United States. After discharge, stroke patients are at high risk for complications. Although a model of stroke post-care (early supported discharge) exists in Europe and ...

Feb 25th, 2020 - Background Investigating the interrelation of stroke and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is of major importance. Stroke affects 2-3 individuals per 1000 a year and is the most common neurological cause of hospitalization and long-term disability ...

Apr 20th, 2021 - Race and insurance status appear to influence whether patients receive stroke treatment with thrombolysis and endovascular therapy (EVT), new research shows. In a study of data from three states, investigators found that black patients were 18% to...

Dec 7th, 2020 - Takeaway Increasing blood pressure (BP) variability (BPV), derived from enhanced casual BP assessments at 1 month and ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) at 12 months, was associated with poor functional outcome following acute stroke. Why this matter...

Nov 10th, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large reductions in the number of patients with acute stroke presenting to hospital, increased in-hospital stroke mortality, and many post-stroke patients reportedly feeling abandoned at home, with caregivers left ...

Nov 10th, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large reductions in the number of patients with acute stroke presenting to hospital, increased in-hospital stroke mortality, and many post-stroke patients reportedly feeling abandoned at home, with caregivers left ...

Nov 5th, 2020 - The presence of certain complicating features on plaques in the carotid artery are an under-recognized cause of ischemic stroke, a new study suggests. The CAPIAS (Carotid Plaque Imaging in Acute Stroke) study showed that complicated nonstenosing c...