Nick Losseff and his team of contributors provide the reader, whether consultant, trainee neurologist, or neurological rehabilitation nurse, with interdisciplinary perspectives on how to rehabilitate patients. Highlighting the special skills required for the effective rehabilitation of stroke patients, they take the reader from bedside to rehabilitation center to the patient's home. Emphasis is placed on the need for multidisciplinary approach among all workers and the patient and how to evaluate the outcomes. Neurological Rehabilitation of Stroke offers a simplified, multidisciplinary approach to the effective rehabilitation of stroke patients.
Author(s): Losseff
Edition: 1
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 100
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Series Preface......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
The Basis of Stroke Management......Page 14
Plasticity in the Normal Brain......Page 16
Plasticity in the Lesioned Brain......Page 17
Promoting Functional Recovery after Stroke......Page 20
Animal models......Page 23
Human studies......Page 27
Summary......Page 29
References......Page 30
Introduction......Page 38
The Interdisciplinary Team......Page 39
Nursing staff......Page 40
Medical staff......Page 41
Physiotherapy......Page 42
Occupational therapy......Page 44
Speech and language therapy......Page 46
Clinical neuropsychology......Page 48
Nutrition and dietetic service......Page 49
Interdisciplinary Working......Page 51
Interdisciplinary Treatment......Page 52
Preventing secondary complications......Page 53
Ongoing rehabilitation......Page 56
References......Page 64
Introduction......Page 69
Mortality, Incidence and Prevalence......Page 70
Outcomes After Stroke......Page 71
Evolution of Impact......Page 73
Resource Implications......Page 77
References......Page 79
4 The Impact of the Disease: A Personal View......Page 86
Bibliography......Page 89
For whom is stroke outcome being assessed?......Page 90
Tools for assessment of stroke outcomes......Page 91
Disability after stroke......Page 95
Handicap after stroke......Page 98
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after stroke......Page 100
Multidimensional stroke outcomes......Page 101
Cost-effectiveness of stroke care......Page 102
Recommendation for future studies into stroke outcomes......Page 103
Service organization......Page 104
Psychological impairments: mood and cognitive disorders......Page 105
Communication: dysphasia, dysarthria and dyspraxia......Page 106
Sensory impairment and pain, including shoulder pain......Page 107
Equipment and adaptations......Page 108
Conclusions......Page 109
References......Page 111
Introduction......Page 116
Stroke Intensive Care Units (SICUs)......Page 117
Acute Stroke Unit (ASU)......Page 118
Stroke Rehabilitation Units (SRUs)......Page 119
Stroke Team (ST)......Page 120
Domiciliary Stroke Care......Page 121
Are Stroke Units Cost-effective?......Page 122
References......Page 123
Index......Page 126
