Comprehensive stroke care: an overview.
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em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-89548
ABSTRACT
Stroke is a global epidemic and an important cause of morbidity and mortality. It ranks next to cardiovascular disease and cancer as a cause of death. "India is likely to suffer huge social and economic burden in the rehabilitation of stroke patients owing to increased life expectancy" and urbanization. Though, there are national programs in malaria eradication and tuberculosis control, there is hardly any governmental support in stroke management and rehabilitation. We propose to formulate stroke-prevention strategies specific to our national needs and covering all the age groups. Allocation of resources towards the stroke management and research is needed. Emphasis on stroke awareness in community should be stressed and should be inclusive of means of primordial and primary prevention apart from management of stroke and its recurrence. Recent international experience in stroke management has suggested the need of specialized stroke units (comprehensive stroke care under one roof). We wish to establish the need of creating awareness regarding the urgency of specialized care in acute stroke. We also wish to motivate our national health institutions to offer affordable, evidence based management of stroke and offer opportunities in stroke training and research.
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Índice:
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Assunto principal:
Conscientização
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Fatores de Tempo
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Humanos
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Doença Aguda
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Fatores de Risco
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Ativador de Plasminogênio Tecidual
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Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto
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Medição de Risco
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Assistência Integral à Saúde
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Acidente Vascular Cerebral
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
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Guia de Prática Clínica
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Fatores de risco
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
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