Title: Stroke, a practical guide to management /
Authors: Warlow, Charles, 1934-
Publisher: Blackwell Science,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Cerebrovascular disease; Cerebrovascular Disorders therapy
Abstract: Stroke is the most common cause of serious physical disability and the third most common cause of death in many developed countries. As such it poses a considerable burden upon healthcare services at the primary care and hospital levels. One of the main problems facing the doctor dealing with a suspected stroke patient is making a rapid and accurate diagnosis as this is crucial to correct management over the first critical hours. Indeed, there are a number of conditions which appears similar to stroke but which have very different consequences. Professor Warlow leads a team of stroke experts at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh which has become a world reference centre for stroke and he has built up a very strong international reputation for the group in recent years. As such, he is the ideal first author for this new book on the diagnosis and management of stroke. Professor Warlow has put together a small, hand-picked team of close collaborators who have worked together to produce a coherent and seamless account of the clinical practice of stroke care.
Contents: Introduction -- Development of knowledge concerning cerebrovascular disease -- Is it a vascular event? Transient ischaemic attack or stroke -- Where is the lesion? -- What pathological type of stroke is it? -- What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event? -- Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack -- What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage? -- What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage? -- A practical approach to the management of stroke patients -- Specific treatment of acute ischaemic stroke -- Specific treatment of primary intracerebral haemorrhage -- Specific treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage -- Specific treatment of arteriovenous malformations -- What are this person's problems? A problem-based approach to the general management of stroke -- Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events -- The organisation of stroke services -- Reducing the burden of stroke and improving the public health.