- A comprehensive and updated resource for evidenced-based stroke treatments and strategies
- Practical for primary care physicians and general and vascular neurologists
- Authored by world-renowned experts
This second edition updates established evidence for contemporary management of ischemic stroke. Therapeutics for acute management, secondary prevention, recovery, rehabilitation, asymptomatic cerebral ischemia, special populations, and implementation of stroke systems of care are all discussed.
Chapters are authored by leading academicians from around the world with real-world clinical practice experience, and comprise the scientific rationale and expert consensus recommendations, which underlie prevailing (and possibly future) therapeutic strategies for managing ischemic cerebrovascular disease. New chapter topics include neuroprotectants, treatment of the oldest old, brain-computer interfaces, disparities, and the global burden.
The specialist or general practitioner will gain critical knowledge in stroke management, current clinical challenges and promising new therapies under investigation.
Table of ContentsGeneral Concepts: Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Prehospital Stroke Treatment (EMS Stabilization Protocols)
- Intravenous Thrombolysis and Anti-thrombotics
- Intra-arterial Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Hemicraniectomy
- Supportive Care and Management of Inhospital Complications
- Post-discharge Complications of Stroke
- General Concepts: Stroke Mechanisms, Subtyping, and Workup
- Traditional Stroke Risk Factor Treatment
- Heterogeneous Causes of Stroke: Antithrombotics
- Heterogeneous Causes of Stroke: Select Emerging Risk Factors
- Secondary Prevention After Cardioembolic Stroke
- Secondary Prevention After Ischemic Lacunar Stroke
- Secondary Prevention After Symptomatic Large Artery Extracranial Disease
- Secondary Prevention After Symptomatic Large Artery Intracranial Disease
- Secondary Prevention After Non-atherosclerotic Cerebral Vasculopathies
- Secondary Prevention after Ischemic Strokes due to Hypercoagulable States
- General Concepts: Therapies for Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Botulinum Toxin for Post-stroke Limb Spasticity
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
- Constraint-Induced Therapies
- Virtual Reality in Stroke Rehabilitation
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- General Concepts: Management of Asymptomatic Cerebrovascular Disease
- Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
- Subclinical Vascular Brain Injury
- General Concepts: Stroke Systems of Care
- Stroke Centers and Related Aspects of Stroke Systems
- Role of Registries and Community Models in Developed Countries
- Telemedicine in Stroke Systems of Care
