Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of acute stroke, rehabilitation is still a key part of stroke care, as most patients experience some level of functional deficit. Patients and families ...

As stroke systems of care evolve, clinicians are increasingly torn between the known safety of traditional, aggressive ...

A streamlined, nurse-led response for hospitalized patients experiencing an acute stroke at a Texas academic medical center improved time from symptom discovery to imaging and treatment, which is ...

In less than 5 minutes, the Shock Index assessment can gauge the severity of a patient's condition. Stroke is a deadly and expensive-to-treat condition that kills about 140,000 Americans each year, ...

A new rapid-assessment scheme that enables ambulance crews to take stroke patients straight to specialist care is being piloted in Hertfordshire. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ ...

DENVER, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Nearly 800,000 Americans will suffer a stroke this year, yet most people in the U.S. cannot identify stroke warning signs or risk factors. HealthONE ...

A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association outlines maternal stroke risk and prevention and treatment strategies during pregnancy and postpartum.

Hospitals are referring a larger share of stroke patients to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, which typically favor home health as the provider of any additional step-down care, a recent study ...

Improvements in workload policies, salaries, mentoring, and a greater degree of autonomy are among the changes needed to preserve the workforce of nurses across a variety of roles in clinical and ...

The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association have issued an updated guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic stroke.The new guideline, published in Stroke, ...

Providence, RI - A new study shows that only half of elderly stroke survivors living in nursing homes receive any pharmacological therapy for secondary prevention of stroke. Reporting these findings ...

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the U.S. Despite the decline in mortality rates, African Americans still have the highest mortality rate among non-Hispanic white Americans. AA men ...