Interprofessional care for stroke
Interprofessional care for stroke
- Management of modifiable risk factors
- Healthy diet
- Weight control
- Regular exercise
- No smoking
- Limiting alcohol consumption
- BP management
- Routine health assessments
- Preventive drug therapy
- Measures to prevent development of a thrombus or embolus are used in patients at risk for stroke
- Antiplatelet drugs are used in patients who have had a TIA related to atherosclerosis
- Aspirin is most frequently used antiplatelet agent
- Surgical therapy
- Surgical interventions for patient with TIAs from carotid disease include
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Transluminal angioplasty
- insertion of a balloon to open a stenosed artery in the brain and improve blood low
- Stenting
- intravascular placement of a stent in an attempt to maintain patency of the artery
- Postoperative care is important
- Neurovascular assessment
- BP management
- Assessment for complications
- Stent occlusion
- Retroperitoneal hemorrhage
- Minimize complications at insertion site