Stroke Care A practical manual

by Harwood, Rowan H.; Huwez, Farhad; Good, Dawn

• ISBN13: 9780199558315
• ISBN10: 0199558310
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Stroke is common, complicated to manage, and, until recently, remarkably neglected. Over the past 30 years, good evidence has emerged that thorough and organised care from teams of health professionals on stroke units leads to substantially fewer deaths and better recovery than other types of care. In fact, stroke medicine is emerging as a separate specialty for health professionals, creating a need for learning and training materials specifically designed to capture and pass on this expertise. Aimed at all the members of the stroke team, including doctors, nurses, stroke co-ordinators, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapy members, this new edition provides a holistic approach to the care of patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and stroke. It covers the wide range of knowledge and skills needed to tackle problems that may lead up to, or follow on from a stroke, and follows the course of a patient's journey from diagnosis to life at home, incorporating recent changes in the field and the latest clinical trials. It also covers the principles of rehabilitation, as well as secondary prevention, discharge planning, specific interventions, prognosis for various neurological deficits, and longer terms problems, including spasticity and psychiatric complications.

Author Biography

Professor Rowan Harwood was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, and trained in general medicine in Leicester and Nottingham. He moved to London as Shah Ebrahim's lecturer, where he developed an interest in stroke, institutional care and health status measurement. Courtesy of an MRC Health Services Research Training Fellowship, he undertook an MSc in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene, and moved to the Royal Free to complete work on the London Handicap Scale. He moved back to Nottingham, as lecturer, to complete higher specialist training, and to an NHS consultant post in 1996. Professor Harwood is an active educator, at all levels and for various professional disciplines, and has served as a Foundation Programme director. He was made a special professor in geriatric medicine at the University of Nottingham in 2006.

Dr Farhad Huwez graduated in 1975 from Mosul University in Mosul, Iraq, and completed his general professional training in Mosul Teaching Hospital, before teaching in Medical school, Erbil, Iraq. In 1986, he undertook a 4 year research in cardiovascular medicine under Professors S.M Cobbe and P.W.Macfarlane of Glasgow University. Afterwards he completed higher medical training in general medicine, and geriatric medicine in Barnett and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals. Dr Huwez has been in charge of stroke services in the Basildon area for over 10 years, and his unit currently has four full time stroke consultants and provides 24/7 services for thrombolysis in stroke.