Stroke Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation - Brossura

Spence, David

9780071762359: Stroke Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071762353 ISBN 13: 9780071762359

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2012

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Help your patients avoid a new or recurrent stroke―with this evidence-based guide

Featuring a rigorous evidence-based approach and hands-on tools, this book will enable you to go further in minimizing the risk of stroke for your patients.

Edited by two global authorities, Stroke Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation offers leading-edge insights, new data, and best practices from luminaries in the field―all designed to help you apply proven stroke prevention techniques and treatment protocols to your practice. In concise, practical chapters, the text surveys the epidemiology of stroke, the urgency of treatment and how to unlock the considerable potential for prevention. Specific chapters highlight specific, ready-to-use prevention methods, including:

Nutritional counseling, smoking cessation and exercise
Management of hypertension
Antiplatelet, anticoagulation, and lipid-lowering therapies
Intracranial stenosis and appropriate endarterectomy and stenting
Treatment and rehabilitation for when stroke has already occurred

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Contenuti:

1. Epidemiology of stroke prevention, and urgency of treatment
2. Potential for stroke prevention
3. Nutrition in stroke prevention
4. Smoking cessation
5. Exercise
6. Hypertension
7. Antiplatelet therapy
8. Anticoagulation
9. Lipid lowering therapy
10. Treatment of diabetes and insulin resistance
11. Appropriate endarterectomy and stenting
12. Finding the cause of the TIA or stroke: the key to appropriate therapy
13. Hazards of relying on publications
14. Prospects for preventing dementia by preventing stroke
15. Minimizing adverse effects of cardiovascular therapy

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