- 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 ContentsAcute Thrapeutics- Prehospital Stroke Care
- Neuroprotectants
- Acute Blood Pressure Management
- Intravenous Thrombolysis
- Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Advanced Imaging for Extended Window Stroke Therapy
- Acute Antithrombotic Therapy
- Decompressive Hemicraniectomy and Suboccipital Craniectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Supportive Care and Management of Inhospital Complications
- Postdischarge Complications of Stroke
Primary Prevention Therapeutics- “Management of Emerging or Unconventional Risk Factors”
- “Management of Emerging or Unconventional Risk Factors-2”
- Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
Secondary Prevention- Therapeutics
- Tailored Approach to Secondary Prevention After Stroke
- Antithrombotic Therapy for Heterogeneous Causes of Stroke
- Subclinical Vascular Brain Injury
- Secondary Prevention After Cardioembolic Stroke
- Secondary Prevention of Lacunar Stroke
- Symptomatic Extracranial Large Artery Disease
- Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease
- Non-atherosclerotic Cerebral Vasculopathies
Rehabilitation and Recovery- Botulinum Toxin for Post-Stroke Limb Spasticity
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
- Constraint-Induced Therapies
- Virtual Reality for Motor Recovery in Stroke Rehabilitation
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Brain-Computer Interfaces for Rehabilitation After Stroke
Special Populations- Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke
- Stroke in the Very Elderly
- Vascular Cognitive Impairment
Systems of Care- Stroke Systems of Care and Stroke Centers
- Telemedicine in Stroke Systems of Care
- Broadly Bridging the Breach: Stroke Disparities
Systems of Care- Stroke Systems of Care
- Systematically Addressing Stroke Burden in the Developing World: A Framework for Effective Implementation
