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Stroke Recovery: Tips for the Caregiver

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We should be aware of the medications that have been prescribed to our loved one and their side effects. Ask whether our home should be modified to meet the specific needs of the stroke survivor. Ask a doctor, nurse or therapist to provide written information that explains what occurs after the stroke and during recovery or rehabilitation. If the treatment recommendations are not followed, the survivors who have had one stroke are at high risk of having another one. Be sure that they eat a healthy diet, takes medications as prescribed, exercises, and has regular visits with their physician to help prevent a second stroke. Recovery depends on many different factors: where in the brain the stroke occurred, how much of the brain was affected, caregiver support, the quantity and quality of rehabilitation, the patient’s motivation, and how healthy the survivor was before the stroke.  Avoid comparisons, because every stroke and stroke survivor is unique. During the firs...

Traumatic brain injury Management

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Traumatic brain injury is common and a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Management is based on avoidance of secondary injury, maintenance of cerebral perfusion pressure, and optimization of cerebral oxygenation. Multimodality monitoring of the injured brain enables individualized therapeutic targets to be set to optimize patient management. Patients with moderate or severe brain injury should be managed in a specialist neurosurgical center. Traumatic brain injury (TBI)                     Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in young adults in the developed world. It can be divided into primary and secondary brain injury. The primary injury occurs as a consequence of the initial physical insult. The pattern and extent of damage will depend on the nature, intensity, and duration of the impact. Compression and shearing forces may...