About 700,000 Americans Suffer a Stroke Annually - 400,000 Being First Strokes - Read More inside Stroke and Cardiac Rehabilitation.

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Stroke Rehabilitation

Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation Hospitals/Units (CMRH/U) are licensed and certified facilities that primarily provide special rehabilitative health care services rather than general medical and surgical services. Rehabilitative therapy focuses on restoring physical function and abilities lost due to an acute condition. At the onset of therapy, it is assumed there is a reasonable expectation of either a complete or partial restoration of premorbid function.

About 700,000 Americans suffer a stroke annually - 400,000 are first strokes. At least 3 million Americans have varying degrees of disability secondary to a stroke. Men are affected more often than women and African-Americans more often than Caucasians. Men have 4X the rate of stroke due to carotid artery stenosis as women. Ischemic brain infarction accounts for about 75% of strokes while intracerebral or subarachnoid hemorrhage leads to another 15%. 10% are of other or unknown causation. Stroke frequency increases after age 55, doubling during each succeeding decade.

Modifiable risk factors for stroke prevention include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cigarette smoking, atrial fibrillation, left ventricular hypertrophy, transient ischemic attacks, high serum cholesterol, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, cocaine use, obesity and heavy alcohol consumption.

Stroke mortality ranges from 17 to 34% during the first 30 days, and from 25 to 40% during the first year following an acute stroke. Most patients present with some degree of hemiparesis transiently. Acute neurologic impairments often improve or resolve spontaneously. Persisting disabilities lead to partial or total dependence in activities of daily living (ADL) in 25 to 50 % of stroke survivors.

This report is a Stroke and cardiac rehab clinical review criteria guidelines for ambulatory care, inpatient admission, continued stay and discharge; plus clinical care and prevention guidelines, resources and related web sites.

Updated Annually.

Guidelines are an expected part of medical practice in today's society. However, guidelines cannot be blindly accepted or considered inviolate. If that were to be the case, they would cease to be guidelines and would become "standards" or even "mandates". Guidelines and their application must be directed primarily toward the well-being of the patient. The term "cost-effectiveness" should refer to efficiency with regard to time, safety, and utilization of resources for patient care, and should NOT be used as a means to maximize profit or for any other purpose that does not have the patient as the primary concern.

Sample Includes:-

1. Assessment and stabilization

2. Medical management

3. Rehabilitation referrals for the appropriate level of care necessary to address the treatment requirements of a specific individual.

4. Rehabilitation management plan with well-defined explicit goals, measurement of progress at predetermined intervals, an adjustment of the plan or goals as appropriate to the individual's progress in rehabilitation and development of a realistic prognosis.

5. Reintegration of the affected patient into the community at or as close to the previous functional and residential setting as is practical.

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