management
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The management of stroke consists of:
- diagnosis - the National Service Framework for older people states that all patients with an acute stroke require urgent admission to hospital
- determination of risk factors for stroke
- supportive care for the majority of acute patients
- acute interventions in a few patients
- prevention of complications
- secondary prevention
- rehabilitation
Last reviewed 04/2020
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- prevention of complications
- supportive care
- acute interventions in stroke
- organisation of stroke care
- management in general practice
- management of behavioural and psychiatric symptoms in dementia and the treatment of psychosis in people with a history of stroke/TIA
- secondary prevention of stroke
- excessive drooling in neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease , cerebral palsy , stroke and traumatic brain injury