Featuring diagnostic tests, cutting-edge treatments, and standards for best practice, Fast Facts for Stroke Care Nursing, Second Edition distills the lengthy and often complex national stroke care guidelines into a clear, easily digestible format.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Linda Littlejohns, MSN, RN, FAAN, SCRN, CNRN
• Preface
• Part I: Foundations of Stroke Care
• 1. Stroke Care Evolution: We've Come a Long Way
• 2. Basic Cerebrovascular Anatomy
• 3. Stroke Types
• 4. Physiology of Stroke
• 5. Associated Stroke Disorders
• 6. Stroke Diagnostics
• 7. Neurologic and Functional Assessment and Severity Scores
• Part II: Saving the Penumbra
• 8. Acute Stroke Interventions
• 9. Secondary Prevention Interventions
• Part III: Key Elements of Stroke Care
• 10. Prehospital and Emergency Department
• 11. In the Stroke Unit and the Intensive Care Unit
• 12. Patient and Family as Members of the Team and Transitions From Acute Care
• Part IV: Postacute Care Essentials
• 13. Rehabilitative Care
• 14. Secondary Prevention: Risk-Factor Control
• Part V: Primary Prevention
• 15. Primary Prevention
• Part VI: Evidence-Based Practice
• 16. Connecting Data to Clinical Practice
• Appendix: 50 Neuroscience Terms
• Bibliography