A data processing system programmed in a terminal-oriented language called APL is described. This user-oriented system features the print-out of English text discharges summaries for patients treated in a stroke rehabilitation unit. The variables contained in the summaries are stored in the computer for statistical analysis, allowing continous monitoring of the unit's activities. Seventy-eight ...

Patients: 300 patients (median 76 y, 53% men) admitted to the stroke unit and their caregivers. Patients had to be independent in activities of daily living (ADL) before the stroke, medically and neurologically stable, and expected to return home with residual disability. Caregivers were defined as the main person (other than the health, social, or voluntary care provider) who helped with ADL a...

After an unconventional beginning in stroke research, I veered off the main path repeatedly to view problems from a different perspective. In this lecture summary, I would like to return to several points along the byways that led to research with some continuity.

In a series of 149 patients admitted to a stroke unit, the outcome of the acute phase of stroke rehabilitation, assessed by the patients' return to independence, was found to be related to the results of standardized weekly clinical examinations of mental, motor, sensory and communication function. The prediction of subsequent independence was estimated just as accurately using the results from...

Ventricular function curves were constructed in 39 patients having coronary arteriography by plotting left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and stroke work index before, during, and immediately after atrial pacing. Similar curves were constructed from measurements obtained before and 3 minutes after a standard left ventricular angiogram. Both methods vary preload sufficiently to produce detec...

In this lecture, the theoretical basis for the deterministic and statistical estimation of the lightning current from distant field measurements is presented. The influence of the presence of an elevated strike object on the peak of the lightning return stroke current determined from remote field measurements is also discussed.

•An odyssey of a Japanese surgeon, who survived a life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke.•Self-motivation and adherence to work ethics displayed by the surgeon to return to work is admirable.•Passion is a detrimental factor that enables surgeons to overcome a roadblock to their career.

Introduction: A new stroke care model has been developed in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in which patients only receive short-term acute care in the hospital. As soon as they are stabilized, patients are transferred to a special assessment and rehabilitation unit in a nursing home where the optimal rehabilitation track will be determined by means of a structured multidisciplinary assessment. It...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The organization of poststroke care will be a major challenge in coming years. We aimed to assess hospital disposition after stroke and its associated factors in clinical practice. METHODS All cases of stroke from 2006 to 2010 were identified from the population-based Stroke Registry of Dijon, France. Demographic features, risk factors, and prestroke treatments were rec...

Many crustaceans detect odors from distant sources using chemosensory sensilla (aesthetascs) on their antennules. The greater the flow of water through arrays of aesthetascs, the faster the access of odorant to receptors inside the aesthetascs. Stomatopods facilitate odorant access by flicking their antennules, thus increasing the relative velocity of the water reaching their aesthetascs. We us...