Stroke: A Case Study
Taylor Taunton
Specific Aims: Strokes are the third leading cause of death in the United States and affect over 750,000 people each year. When a person has a stroke the brain is temporarily deprived of oxygen, which causes brain cells to die. The longer it takes a person to receive the medical attention they need the more likely they are to suffer greater and long lasting effects. Therefore, if the symptoms are better understood then getting correct and more efficient medical attention would be easier. In recent studies, researches have found a direct correlation with the level of severity of speech impairments and the severity, or higher mortality rate, of the stroke. This is a critical advancement in the medical field. If doctors …show more content…
These criteria will include a way for doctors to accurately determine and document the severity of the patient’s speech upon entrance. When a stroke patient enters the emergency care facility, a doctor should be able assess whether or not the patient is exhibiting speech disturbances in correlation with the stroke. The doctor should then be able to determine what type of stroke and where in the brain the stroke is occurring. This in turn will help doctors quickly recognize what treatment options are the best for the patient. This is extremely critical in the care of stroke patients, the less time it takes to provide treatment for a stroke patient, the more likely the patient is to survive. This is innovative in the way that if this scale is approved for use in hospitals it could potentially lower the mortality rates across the country. Since, 130,000 American die each year from strokes, our scale could potentially save 1,000s of …show more content…
This again would be an extremely important development in the treatment and care of stroke patients. As mentioned earlier, when caring for stroke patients, time is of the essence. It is very vital that correct treatment start as soon as possible. Therefore, if there is a correlation between speech disturbance and the severity and location of the stroke, doctors could then quickly determine effective treatment options, which could in turn save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
Potential Pitfalls & Alternatives: There really are not any potential pitfalls that are foreseen in this particular aim. This particular aim will assess the current treatment methods and match the associated brain region with the corresponding treatment method. Therefore, due to its straightforwardness the only pitfall or alteration would depend on the presence or lack of the correlation between speech disturbance severity and the affected regions of the brain. If there were a correlation, then that would be factored into the methodology of the treatments. If no correlations are found, then the treatments will still be assessed as described above.
Specific Aim 3: Using the data we collect from the doctors in the first study, we will categorize strokes based on their severity and location, we will then make a criteria
Specific Aims: Strokes are the third leading cause of death in the United States and affect over 750,000 people each year. When a person has a stroke the brain is temporarily deprived of oxygen, which causes brain cells to die. The longer it takes a person to receive the medical attention they need the more likely they are to suffer greater and long lasting effects. Therefore, if the symptoms are better understood then getting correct and more efficient medical attention would be easier. In recent studies, researches have found a direct correlation with the level of severity of speech impairments and the severity, or higher mortality rate, of the stroke. This is a critical advancement in the medical field. If doctors …show more content…
These criteria will include a way for doctors to accurately determine and document the severity of the patient’s speech upon entrance. When a stroke patient enters the emergency care facility, a doctor should be able assess whether or not the patient is exhibiting speech disturbances in correlation with the stroke. The doctor should then be able to determine what type of stroke and where in the brain the stroke is occurring. This in turn will help doctors quickly recognize what treatment options are the best for the patient. This is extremely critical in the care of stroke patients, the less time it takes to provide treatment for a stroke patient, the more likely the patient is to survive. This is innovative in the way that if this scale is approved for use in hospitals it could potentially lower the mortality rates across the country. Since, 130,000 American die each year from strokes, our scale could potentially save 1,000s of …show more content…
This again would be an extremely important development in the treatment and care of stroke patients. As mentioned earlier, when caring for stroke patients, time is of the essence. It is very vital that correct treatment start as soon as possible. Therefore, if there is a correlation between speech disturbance and the severity and location of the stroke, doctors could then quickly determine effective treatment options, which could in turn save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
Potential Pitfalls & Alternatives: There really are not any potential pitfalls that are foreseen in this particular aim. This particular aim will assess the current treatment methods and match the associated brain region with the corresponding treatment method. Therefore, due to its straightforwardness the only pitfall or alteration would depend on the presence or lack of the correlation between speech disturbance severity and the affected regions of the brain. If there were a correlation, then that would be factored into the methodology of the treatments. If no correlations are found, then the treatments will still be assessed as described above.
Specific Aim 3: Using the data we collect from the doctors in the first study, we will categorize strokes based on their severity and location, we will then make a criteria