Hospital team significantly reduced risk of further vascular events after 'mini strokes'
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
Patients who had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), sometimes referred to as a “mini stroke”, were much less likely to experience further vascular events in the first year if their care was coordinated by a special hospital team that integrated outpatient care and stroke unit facilities and provided on-going nurse-led counseling. Researchers studied 306 patients admitted to the hospital with a TIA. They found that when the patients were treated by an acute TIA team their cumulated risk of having a stroke in the first seven days was 65% lower than expected. The cumulated risk in the first 90 days fell by 74%.