Active clinical trials for "Stroke"

Rehab in a Crate is a therapy gym designed to be affordable, compact and easily transportable. The purpose of this particular study is to gain feedback on the initial design of the Rehab in a Crate system. This will be accomplished by using qualitative ethnographic research methods (i.e. human centered design) in the form of surveys that have been carefully designed by members of the research team. The eligibility criteria of this survey research reflects the intended user base of an eventual finished product, which is survivors of stroke and cerebral palsy across the globe. And while healthcare professionals are not the user base per se, their expertise and feedback should be instrumental in the design of future iterations of the Rehab in a Crate. Ease of use, utility, design, and various features, both existing and intended, will all be surveyed items.

PROMISE is a prospective, nationwide, multicenter, longitudinal cohort study, focusing on hospital intravenous thrombolysis process reengineering for acute ischemic stroke (AIS). With a proposed "Reengineered Process Framework" for intravenous thrombolysis process by the PROMISE study steering committee, about 30 medical centers enters would be recruited nationwide, and each center would include consecutive AIS patients with an onset-to-door time (ODT) of less than 3.5 h. The investigators hypothesize that the proposed "Reengineered Process Framework" is suitable and feasible for hospitals in mainland of China; the rate of intravenous rt-PA thrombolysis in ischemic stroke patients with an ODT of less than 3.5 h would be more than 20% or be increased by 40% as compared with baseline; the proportion of patients with a door-to-needle (DNT) time of less than 60 min would be more than 20%, or be with an increase by ≥ 40% as compared with baseline.

A descriptive study of the stroke rehabilitation content in specialized clinics in seven countries: procedures for admission to rehabilitation, services available and provided to patients, as well as duration of the stay and discharge routines. An observational study of changes in regard to the physical function, quality of life and psycho-social factors in stroke patients before and after specialized rehabilitation

This is an open label single center phase II trial, evaluating the utility of 64 slice CT perfusion (CTP) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients. The main aim is to determine which aspects of CTP imaging can aid in expanding the time window for thrombolysis with IV (rt-PA) in AIS patients up to 6 hours after symptom onset.

The objective of this study is to determine the 90-day outcomes of mild and rapidly improving ischemic stroke.

Our study aimed to examine a possible association between Restless legs syndrome and cerebrovascular disease, by examining patients during hospitalization for acute stroke or transient ischemic attack, in a matched case-control design.

The central questions of the study can be summarized as follows: What stroke / death rates are the result of the use of the following treatment strategies: no anticoagulation with vitamin-k-antagonists (VKAs) or novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs), anticoagulation with VKAs and anticoagulation with NOACs (all). What other thromboembolic complication rates resulting from the use of these treatment strategies? What heavy bleeding rates resulting from the defined management strategies? The analysis is based on a data set of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF)(01/01/2010 - 30/06/2014). 2010 is used as the reference period and 01/01/2011-30/06/2013 as the inclusion period. The minimum observation time per patient is 12 months. Used is a data base of the AOK PLUS as well as the AOK Baden-Württemberg and AOK Bayern. The aim of the study is to compare clinical outcomes between the different treatment strategies (frequency of events and time to first event). The influence of alternative treatment strategies is measured on the basis of three different methodological approaches: unadjusted comparison of event council and time to first event between the defined patient groups; matched-pair comparison (propensity score matching) between the different groups of patients (treatment strategies) and multivariate analysis using time to event (Cox proportional hazards model) as the dependent variable.

A stroke awareness program for school-aged children to learn the signs/symptoms of stroke, teach their parents and make healthy life-style choices.

The SURPRISE study investigates atrial fibrillation(AFIB) in patients with a previous unexplained stroke. It uses long term monitoring of the heart of up to three years, searching for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation(PAF) otherwise undetected in this population.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability, construct validity, and sensitivity to change of the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) in individuals affected by stroke.