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Rehabilitation Day Hospital Aids Stroke Victims

Rehabilitation Day Hospital aids stroke victims Filed under: stroke rehabilitation centers She'd been absolutely terrified the first time around. “I didn't know anyone who had even had a stroke,” she said. The second time around, her great fear was that the recovery would be long. “I thought, 'Not again',” she said. “For 12 years I had … Read more on Royal Gazette   NCH hospitals named 'Primary Stroke Centers' Filed under: stroke rehabilitation centers Read more... ...

Lean Helps Stroke Patients Receive Quicker Care

...  recommend treatment time for stroke patients be under 60 minutes, yet the guidelines fail to suggest how to lower door-to-needle times. So Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis found a solution in Lean manufacturing techniques … Read more on FierceHealthcare   Nixing Time Wasters Speeds Stroke Treatment Filed under: treatment for stroke patients Institution of the new protocol resulted in reduced median door-to-needle time and an increase in the percentage of patients treated within the American Heart Association's Stroke goal of 60 minutes or less. The same techniques that streamlined … Read more on MedPage Today Read ...

Endovascular Stroke Treatment-Mayo Clinic

  Endovascular Stroke Treatment-Mayo Clinic – When it comes to stroke, time is brain. That’s because there’s a small window of opportunity after symptoms begin for treatment to be effective. The man you’re about to meet knows this all too well. He was in a coma from a massive stroke. But thanks to state-of-the art technology at Mayo Clinic that allows doctors to work inside the vessels of the brain without surgery, this man survived.   New Clot Removal Device Proves More Effective Than Standard Treatment For … Filed under: stroke treatment Read more... ...

Bible Science and Quran on Alcohol Consumption

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Strokerecovery Patient Says He's Lucky Damage Wasn't Worse

Stroke–recovery patient says he's lucky damage wasn't worse Filed under: stroke treatment recovery If a stroke is real bad, he said, it comes on suddenly, and you know what it is. But if it's minor – like the Transient Ischemic Attack, or mini stroke, that Mellott had unbeknownst to him at some point in the past, recognizing it early and seeking … Read more on Tulsa World   Leg compressions may enhance stroke recovery Filed under: stroke treatment recovery Read more... ...

Was Rau Williams the Victim of a “Death Panel” Under New Zealand’s Single Payer System?

Question by Martin L: Was Rau Williams the victim of a “death panel” under New Zealand‘s single payer system? From Nando Net, Agence France-Presse October 11, 1997: New Zealand’s highly touted free cradle-to-the-grave public health system was in tatters Sunday after the death of a man whose family had for three weeks desperately tried to make health authorities give him life-extending medical treatment. Rau Williams died in Whangarei Hospital, north of Auckland, just hours after the Court of Appeal, in an emergency sitting, ruled that hospital managers Northland Health did not need to resume kidney dialysis treatment. Read more... ...

Stroke Treatment Recovery

...  treatment recovery NeuroAiD™.flv – stroke   Related Stroke Treatment Recovery Information… Tags: american heart association family guide, conditions and diseases, stroke   american heart association family guide, stroke treatment ...