Addressing the Rising Burden of Stroke | Day 2: Organization of Stroke Services

Organization of Stroke Services

Focused on enhancing stroke care frameworks, this module covers the organization of stroke services in both acute and rehabilitation settings. It addresses pre-hospital care, symptom recognition, and prevention strategies and highlights approaches to improving stroke management and lifestyle modifications aimed at reducing risk factors.

Duration: 3,5 hours

• Introduction: Day Opening – Sheila Martins

• WSO & Merz Therapeutics Project collaboration Introduction: Addressing the Rising Burden of Stroke in selected African Countries – Rita Melifonwu and Sarah Matuja

• Organization of Stroke Services – Acute Stroke Care – Sheila Martins

• Organization of Stroke Services – Rehabilitation – Dorcas Gandhi

• Stroke Pre-Hospital Care – Definition, Issues and challenges – Liu Renyu

• Stroke symptom recognition: FAST Awareness – Rita Melifonwu

• Road Map to Prehospital Care in Africa – Mayowa Owolabi

• Stroke prevention – Definition, Types, Risk factors for stroke – A. Ojimba

• Management of risk factors and Lifestyle modifications [BP, Cholesterol and Diabetes control] – Rufus Akinyemi