VSCN forums
The National Stroke Foundation partners with the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network (VSCN) to provide educational opportunities for health professionals working in stroke care. In 2010, NSF participated in the Acute Stroke Forum and the Optimising Longer Term Outcomes after Stroke Forum and have made selected presentations available on our vimeo channel.
Acute Stroke Forum
The Acute Stroke Forum offered health professionals an opportunity to share ideas with experts who generated change in their environments to improve acute stroke care. Held on 31 August 2010, the event was a collaboration of the VSCN, National Stroke Foundation and the Stroke Society of Australasia.
Watch all videos from The Acute Stroke Forum (see list below)
- Ian Mosley: Pre-hospital acute stroke care – what are the key issues?
- Kevin Masci: Paramedic issues in acute stroke care – rural vs metropolitan services
- Michael Bryant: Streamlining the emergency department care of patients with acute stroke: ‘time is brain’
- Patrick Groot: Development of a stroke unit in a rural environment
- Louise Weir: Nursing management of acute stroke
- Alistair Wright: Can tPA be delivered safely and reliably in rural and regional hospitals?
- Martin Jude: Implementing acute stroke care: lessons in change management
- Chris Bladin: tPA evidence
- Peter Hand: CT interpretation in acute stroke
- Kelvin Hill: What are the NHMRC NSF guidelines for acute stroke care? Is there anything new?
- Michael Regos: What are the legal implications of giving or not giving tPA in acute ischaemic stroke?
- Nigel Preston and Freya Carkeek: Some personal reflections on my acute stroke care
For more about the Acute Stroke Forum program.
Optimising Longer Term Outcomes after Stroke Forum
The Optimising Longer Term Outcomes after Stroke Forum featured an exciting line up of international and local speakers. The Australian Association of Gerontology (Victorian Division), the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network and the National Stroke Foundation hosted the event on 12 November 2010 in Melbourne.
Optimising Longer Term Outcomes after Stroke
Watch videos from The Acute Stroke Forum (see list below)
- Professor Peter Langhorne: Post stroke complications: a challenge for the multidisciplinary team
- Ms Chris Graven: Chronic stroke toolkit – focusing on participation and quality of life after stroke
- Dr Toby Cumming: Depression: What can be done?
- Ms Frances Batchelor: Prevention of falls after return home
- Ms Louise Jordan: Management of incontinence
- Ms Carol Gore: Secondary prevention
- Dr Catherine Barrett:Sexuality and intimacy
- Ms Sally Hoffman: Dream, believe, achieve
For more about Optimising Longer Term Outcomes after Stroke program
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