Book · 2012
Stroke Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
1 of 1 copy availableหอสมุดกลาง · 616.1 S745S 2012
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About this title
- Title
- Stroke Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
- Author
- Spence, J David
- Published
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780071762359
- Notes
- Importance of stroke and stroke prevention -- Epidemiology of stroke prevention and urgency of treatment -- Potential for stroke prevention -- Preventing stroke -- Nutrition, diabetes, and stroke prevention -- Smoking cessation -- Exercise -- Hypertension -- Antiplatelet therapy -- Anticoagulation -- Lipid-lowering therapy -- Management and prevention of intracranial atherosclerotic disease -- Appropriate endarterectomy and stenting for carotid stenosis -- Finding the cause of the TIA or stroke: the key to appropriate therapy -- Thoughts on the hazards of relying on publications: cautions needed before applying published results to evidence-based medicine -- Prospects for prevention of dementia by prevention of stroke -- Minimizing adverse effects of cardiovascular drugs -- When the stroke wasn't prevented -- Treatment of acute stroke: medical and interventional therapy -- Surgical management of acute stroke -- Stroke rehabilitation. 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, this book 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.