Sentence examples for specialist stroke from inspiring English sources

Today, treatments and specialist stroke units have transformed patients' chances of recovery, she says.

The HASUs are open day and night, with specialist stroke staff, clot-busting treatment and immediate access to brain scans available.

In the present study, we compare outcomes for stroke patients admitted to specialist stroke units (SU) and other general medical wards (GMW) from four different cities in Europe.

The 50-year-old was taken ill at half-time and taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy, before being transferred to a specialist stroke unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.

In Greater Manchester, only stroke patients seen within four hours of developing symptoms are taken directly to one of three specialist stroke centres with other patients taken to one of 10 district centres.

If he can come back from this quickly then Eddie will do it". Wolecki-Black was taken ill at half-time of the 3-1 victory at Central Park and taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy, before being transferred to a specialist stroke unit at the Western General Hospital.

Among the 114 respondents, the mean catchment population was 400 000 people (median 300 000); 97% indicated that their hospital had a specialist stroke-prevention clinic.

In most centres, most patients seen at the specialist stroke-prevention service had already been prescribed secondary prevention drugs (eg, aspirin; statins) for their recent suspected TIA/minor stroke by their referring doctor (see online supplementary table S1).

In most centres (78%), specialist stroke-prevention services operate every weekday with an average of five new patients attending each clinic, yet only 60% of patients were seen within 1 week of their event.

It excluded TIA not confirmed by specialist, haemorrhagic stroke, and stroke associated with a primary haematological disease e.g. leukaemia, polycythaemia, blood disease, tumours, trauma or surgical procedures.

But University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), investigators led by Thomas Carmichael, a specialist in stroke, and Istvan Mody, an expert in inhibition, wondered whether GABA might also interfere with the brain's plasticity, the ability of healthy regions to take over for injured ones.