Stroke Care by Rowan Harwood
Covering the wide range of knowledge and skills needed to tackle problems that may lead up to, or follow on from a stroke, this new edition follows the course of a patient's journey from diagnosis to life at home, incorporating recent changes in the field of stroke medicine including the latest clinical trials.
This pocket-book manual is a useful reference for practitioners, providing sound evidence to support recommendations for intervention.. With its bullet-list style, the book will suit clinicians who wish to access it rapidly. It is multidisciplinary and all healthcare professionals will find it useful. Nursing Standard
Professor Rowan Harwood was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, and trained in general medicine in Leicester and Nottingham. He moved to London as Shah Ebrahim's lecturer, where he developed an interest in stroke, institutional care and health status measurement. Courtesy of an MRC Health Services Research Training Fellowship, he undertook an MSc in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene, and moved to the Royal Free to complete work on the London Handicap Scale. He moved back to Nottingham, as lecturer, to complete higher specialist training, and to an NHS consultant post in 1996. Professor Harwood is an active educator, at all levels and for various professional disciplines, and has served as a Foundation Programme director. He was made a special professor in geriatric medicine at the University of Nottingham in 2006. Dr Farhad Huwez graduated in 1975 from Mosul University in Mosul, Iraq, and completed his general professional training in Mosul Teaching Hospital, before teaching in Medical school, Erbil, Iraq. In 1986, he undertook a 4 year research in cardiovascular medicine under Professors S.M Cobbe and P.W.Macfarlane of Glasgow University. Afterwards he completed higher medical training in general medicine, and geriatric medicine in Barnett and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals. Dr Huwez has been in charge of stroke services in the Basildon area for over 10 years, and his unit currently has four full time stroke consultants and provides 24/7 services for thrombolysis in stroke.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199558315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199558310 |
| Title | Stroke Care |
| Author | Rowan Harwood |
| Series | Oxford Care Manuals |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2010-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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