Vascular neurology has grown in leaps and bounds in the last several years and this
has had a great and direct impact to the delivery of stroke care. This book is written
for the person in the trenches, those taking daily care of the patients with their
myriad and complex issues, and this is where this book comes in extremely handy. Thus
doctors, nurses, therapists and everyone else if they are working with stroke patients
will find this book very useful. It has an easy style, and looking at the contents
page it was obvious to me that it is well arranged — in much the same way a stroke
patient might make his way through the stroke care delivery system in a modern hospital!
Thus the first chapter rightly starts with the acute phase — “Is it a stroke?” going
on to “what to do in the next few days”, “the next few weeks” and ending appropriately
with “Long term problems”. The acute management including thrombolysis and nursing
care is covered in detail. To its credit, it covers not only ischemic stroke but also
has a chapter on subarachnoid hemorrhage although I was disappointed that intra-cerebral
hemorrhage was covered in less than two pages.
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Published online: September 05, 2011
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© 2011 Elsevier B.V. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
