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    Changing Face Of Stroke

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    Changing Face of Stroke: Implications for Occupational Therapy Practice Stroke is the number one leading cause of adult disability, and it is estimated that approximately 7 million Americans are living with the effects of stroke. The direct and indirect cost of stroke in the United States was approximately $53.6 billion, with a mean lifetime cost estimated at $140,048 (American Heart Association, 2004) and each year, approximately 795,000 people have either a new or recurrent stroke (Go et al.,

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    Introduction Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Each year more than 795,000 Americans suffer from a stroke, which means that every forty seconds someone has stroke (Liebman, 2012). Although a stroke can occur at any age, strokes are frequently seen in the older adult demographics. An increase with age doubles the risk for a stroke each decade after 55 (Grysiewicz, 2008). The percentage of stroke survivors to almost fully recover from a stroke is only 10 percent; in

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    Strokes Neurologic clinics: Provides an overview of stroke rehabilitation covering patient management in the acute, subacute, and chronic phases of poststroke treatment. Cognitive, behavioral, and functional assessment in the subacute poststroke phase is discussed, neuropsychiatric problems occurring during this phase are identified, and cognitive deficits and perceptual deficits encountered during occupational therapy are described. Speech, recreational, and music therapy and social support

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    Adult Nursing care for a patient/client will be the focus of this essay. An evidence based discussion will look into a common health condition, how nursing care will be implemented for a chosen priority as well as principles of person centred care, safe nursing practice and the role of the multi-disciplinary team. For this essay, patient profile 3 will be used. Eileen Smith, is an 73 year old lady, who has had a Thrombotic Cerebrovascular Event. Cerebrovascular event or stroke is a clinical syndrome

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    Module 2 Learning Activities - Stroke 1. List the modifiable risk factors of stroke? The modifiable risk factors of stroke includes high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, carotid or arterial disease, atrial fibrillation, sickle cell disease, high blood cholesterol and other heart diseases like coronary heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, heart valve disease or congenital heart malformations (Bergman, Kindler, & Pfau, 2012). Physical

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    DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION INTRODUCTION Stroke represents a public health issue that is affecting both developed and developing countries. A lot money and time have been invested in attempts to improve outcome in these patients. The majority of patients are treated with medical management. There are however few patients in which an occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) can lead to progressive edema, mass effect and herniation of the brain

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    According to Lannin, Cusick, McCluskey, & Herbert (2007), 82 patients were screened and found to be eligible for this study. However, 63 of inpatients in a medical institution agreed to participate in the study. A standard deviation on the characteristics of these participants was established for the 3 groups that ensured the patients were grouped in terms of gender, age and their scores on the monumental exam (pp.111). Other elements such as their proficiency in speaking English, years of education

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    Post Stroke Suicide

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    One of the main reasons post-stroke individuals are at great risk for suicide is depression. related to the physical consequences. As a young independent adult with no physical disabilities before a stroke, it is extremely difficult to overcome the "denial" stage (of the aftermath). If we put ourselves in these patients' shoes, we could understand why depression takes over them and tend to choose suicide as an escape. In younger patients with less severe stroke effects, the risk for suicide is higher

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    Neurological Disorder: Stroke Mei Hasegawa, Brianna Magrath, Gabriel Ramos, Colette Wong San Francisco State University  Overview of Stroke         A “cerebrovascular accident” is a term used to define a stroke. When a stroke occurs, blood flow cessates to the brain. If the blood flow cessation prolongs, the brain cannot receive oxygen and nutrients, which may lead to cell death and irreversible damage (Kantor et al., 2005 Stanford Health Care, 2015). The two types of stroke are ischemic and hemorrhagic

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    Abstract: Ischemic stroke is a prevalent and harmful disease that often results in permanent neurologic deficit. Currently, there is a dearth of therapeutic options available to improve patients’ functional recovery after stroke. A number of factors impede healing in the central nervous system, including glial scarring, a relative lack of stem cells, and growth-inhibitory proteins located in the extracellular matrix and on cell surfaces. Myelin-associated inhibitors of neurite outgrowth, found on

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