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Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention, Part of the blood supply to the brain may then be cut off, which causes a stroke. Strokes due to AF tend to be even more serious t...
Stroke Prevention, Prevention of stroke may be classified as: Primary prevention, if there is no previous history of stroke or transient ischaemic attack (T...
Stroke, Good-quality rehabilitation is vital following a stroke and can make a big difference to your eventual outcome. Stroke prevention As described above, a common reason ...
Disease Prevention, Prevention of Falls in the Elderly . Stroke Prevention . Health Inequalities and Social Deprivation . Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) . ...
Cerebrovascular Events (Stroke), Signs on CT scan of an infarct of at least 50% of MCA territory with infarct volume greater than 145 cm 3 as shown on diffusion-weighted MRI. [ 6 ] ...
Thrombolytic Treatment of Acute Ischaemic Stroke, Secondary prevention The RCP is also very enthusiastic about the role of primary care in the secondary prevention of stroke...
Prevention of Falls in the Elderly, If the doctor finds that your risk of falling is high (for example, if you are an older person who has already had a fall), you may be offered help from a ...
Head Lice Treatment and Prevention (Nits), Check the comb for lice after each stroke. A magnifying glass may help, as headlice are tiny. If you see any lice, wipe the comb on a ti...
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism, If risk of bleeding is low, consider intermittent pneumatic compression for VTE prophylaxis for people who are immobile and admitted with acute strok...
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, The revised Joint British Societies' (JBS 3) guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in clinical practice recommend that CV...
Prevention of Falls in Elderly People, The scope for prevention of falls in elderly people The scope for prevention can be appreciated by considering some of the common c...
Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes, Provision of services [ 1 ] A review on behalf of Public Health England confirmed previous research, demonstrating that diabetes prevention progra...
Dealing with a Stroke, This advice is no substitute for first aid training - find a training course near you . A stroke happens when the flow of blood to part of the brain is cut ...
Malaria Prevention, Book a pharmacy appointment today Arrange a consultation with your local pharmacist via Patient Access to discuss your travel plans and malaria prevention....
Accidents and their Prevention, Three published guidance documents from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) outline recommendations for all those with a strategic rol...
For guidance on secondary prevention of stroke, see the separate Stroke Prevention article. , Stroke Transient ischaemic attack Tia - transient ischaemic attac...
Hepatitis B Vaccine and Prevention, How hepatitis B spreads There are two components to preventing hepatitis B : Prevention of transmission of the virus. Immunisation....
Prevention of Infective Endocarditis, Therefore, antibacterial prophylaxis is not routinely recommended for the prevention of infective endocarditis in patients undergoing the follow...
Tuberculosis Prevention and Screening, Those who are infected but not (yet) ill (latent TB infection - LTBI) cannot transmit it. [ 1 ] Preventing transmission of tuberculosis (TB), conta...
See the separate leaflet called Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Prevention . This is in addition to rate or rhythm treatment below. Rate control treatment In untrea...