Product Code: 124260

Fast Facts for Stroke Care Nursing, 2nd Ed.

This practical, pocket-sized reference includes the groundbreaking changes to stroke care protocols. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States today and leading preventable cause of long-term disability. This resource fills in the gaps left in neuroscience content in nursing school and streamlines an often intimidating, but critically important, area of care.

Key Features:

• Updated diagnostics with additional MR, CT, and transcranial Doppler options
• Modified Rankin Scale score
• Expands upon the neurological assessment with tips for completing it
• New acute hemorrhagic stroke intervention and 2015 landmark studies on thrombectomy
• Pipeline device
• New large-vessel occlusion tools, routing plans, and certification programs for prehospital personnel
• Expanded use of telemedicine
• Information for advanced practice providers
• Changes to the prehospital phase, the acute treatment phase, and the population affected by stroke

Table of Contents:

Part I: FOUNDATIONS OF STROKE CARE

1. Stroke Care Evolution: We’ve Come a Long Way
2. Basic Cerebrovascular Anatomy
3. Stroke Types
4. Physiology of Stroke
5. Associated Stroke Disorders
6. Stroke Diagnostics
7. Neurologic and Functional Assessment and Severity Scores

Part II: SAVING THE PENUMBRA

8. Acute Stroke Interventions
9. Secondary Prevention Interventions

Part III: KEY ELEMENTS OF STROKE CARE

10. Pre-hospital and Emergency Department
11. In the Stroke Unit and the Intensive Care Unit
12. Patient and Family as Members of the Team and Transitions From Acute Care

Part IV: POSTACUTE CARE ESSENTIALS

13. Rehabilitative Care
14. Secondary Prevention: Risk-Factor Control

Part V: PRIMARY PREVENTION

15. Primary Prevention

Part VI: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

16. Connecting Data to Clinical Practice

ISBN #: 9780826158260

Author: K. Morrison