The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released a stroke care package designed to improve care for people presenting to the emergency department with acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA). Stroke is Australia’s second single greatest killer after coronary heart disease and is a leading cause of disability. There are approximately 60 000 new and recurrent strokes in Australia each year, that’s one stroke every 10 minutes. This number will increase as the population ages. According to the National Stroke Foundation (NSF), one in five people having a first-ever stroke die within one month and one in three die within a year. Effective treatment in the emergency department can reduce disabilities and improve long term patient outcomes.
The package comprises a small number of evidence-based interventions, grouped together and applied to the management of a particular condition. Download the package here.
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