Designation as a stroke center requires that all clinical and nonclinical hospital employees receive training on how to recognize a stroke and take appropriate actions. This was the challenge JFK ...

Clear, simple preparedness messages can help patients recognize symptoms of a subsequent stroke and speed up emergency room arrival times. Stroke education materials dramatically improved hospital ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Patients who received MyStroke were more likely to ...

Many ischemic stroke patients do not get tPA, which can decrease their chances for recovery. Blacks, Hispanics, women and 'Stroke Belters' are less likely to get tPA. Patients treated in large, urban ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. The faster a patient receives proper treatment, the better the chances ...

A culturally tailored, skills-based educational strategy targeting stroke survivors reduced systolic blood pressure (SBP) within a year compared to usual care, but it was statistically significant ...

Our Stroke Center is a national leader in comprehensive stroke care with exceptional rankings year after year. We believe collaboration throughout our system across multiple specialties—from ...

July 10, 2007 — A new study that queried health lines at US hospitals using a classic stroke symptom scenario shows that nearly one-quarter of responders directed them to call their primary-care ...

Two new studies published this week shed some light on the use of statin therapy in the setting of acute ischemic stroke, with one study showing that stroke patients who stop taking the LDL ...

Since stroke education is required annually, changes had to be made to increase efficiency. In 2008, Kozub made the decision to move to a computer-based learning (CBL) strategy. "Although I love the ...