Education

This area of our site includes educational materials designed for different providers that care for stroke victims. Here you'll find links, slideshows and important documents. The purpose is to share information in an easily accessible manor. If there are useful educational links or media please contact us to see if it could be included in this site. Please observe copyrights where they apply.
Prehospital Providers

Acute Stroke Assessment :Field to Treatment

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American Stroke Association Prehospital Presentation

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Stroke Care for Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics

A free, online tutorial and quiz for both Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) pre-hospital medical care providers. CEU credit is also available upon successful completion of the course.

Montana Board of Medical Examiners EMTs Montana Prehospital Stroke Protocol. (Download PDF file here)

The North Carolina Rapid Response to Stroke project website.

This website offers an interactive online education program for EMS providers and 911 telecommunicators to improve stroke recognition and response in the prehospital environment. It is sponsored by a grant from the Duke Endowment and supported by the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, the School of Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Greensboro Area Health Education Center (AHEC).

 

Physicians and Primary Providers

Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment :

New Evidence Report Available on the Evaluation and Treatment of Acute Stroke. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new evidence report summarizing available data on the effectiveness of various methods of treating hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. View report here.

ACT for Stroke. An online acute stroke treatment educational program from the University of Kentucky with online CME for healthcare professionals.

More American Stroke Association educational resources here.

Secondary Stroke Prevention:

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NIH Stroke Scale Training Online

Emergency physicians, neurologists and nurses can take the National Institutes of Health stroke scale training and testing free, and earn continuing education credit at the American Stroke Association’s Web site.
Nursing Personnel

Best Nursing Care of the Acute Stroke Patient:

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