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STROKE
SUBMITTED BY :
V.RAMYA,
TUTOR.

OUTLINE
? Introduction
? Risk Factors
? Prevention and control
? Life style
? Health Care Facilities
? Health Education
? Heat stroke
? Environmental and Personal factors
? Signs and Symptoms
? Prevention and control of Heat Stroke

introduction
? Stroke is a world wide health problem.
? It is contributing to morbidity, mortality and disability in
developing as well as developed countries.
? According to WHO stroke is rapidly developed clinical signs of
focal disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours
or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than vascular
origin.
? The 24 hours threshold in definition exclude transient ischemic
attack

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?Stroke is one of the leading cause of
death and disability throughout the
world.
?The WHO collaborative study showed
that nearly one third of stroke patients
died within 3 weeks.

risk factors
?Stroke is preceded by risk factors
for years such as
? Hypertension,
?Ventricular hypertrophy,
? Cardiac dilatation,

risk factors
?Diabetes,
?Obesity,
?Smoking,
? Glucose intolerance,
?Oral contraceptives etc.

Factors
?Stroke can occur at any age.
? In one fifth, stroke occurs below the age 40
in India and it is found to be more in males
than females.
?Stroke is associated with other diseases
such as cardiovascular system or diabetes.

Prevention and Control
?Early detection and
treatment of Transient
ischemic attack to prevent
the stroke

Life style
? Adopting the behaviour related to maintaining
the health by changing life style pattern.
? This alteration in life style will control the
diabetes and also manage the risk factors.
? Behavioural changes related to elimination of
smoking, alcohol can prevent the occurrence of
stroke.

Health care facilities
? The health care facilities should be
available and within the access of people
for proper treatment and follow up.
?The personnel working in health care
facilities should be educated and trained
enough to tackle the cases.

Health education
?Health education is an integral part of
the prevention and control of stroke.
?People should be made aware about the
disease and its consequences so as to
achieve their participation.

Heat Stroke
?Heat stroke is sudden and
occurs due to derangement
of central heat regulating
mechanism.

environmental factors
? The environmental factors such as
? Climate,
? Buildings,
? Clothing and
? Heavy work under hot
? And unfavourable weather can cause stroke .

personal factors
? The personal factors such as
? Deficiency of salt,
? Gastro-intestinal disorders,
? Thyroid disease and
? Severe water and salt losses predispose
individuals to adverse effects of heat.

SIGS AND SYMPTOMS
?Diseases At the onset of heat stroke,
?Person complains of malaise,
?Headache,
?Dryness of skin,
?Nausea,

SIGS AND SYMPTOMS
?Vomiting,
?Irritable behaviour,
?Cramps,
?High temperature of 104-106��F and
tingling.

Prevention & Control of Heat Stroke
? Drink large amount of water when saw -eating is
profuse.
? Wear light, porous and loosely fitted clothes to
permit ventilation.
? Take adequate rest at work during hottest part of
the day.
? Avoid exposure to sun directly during mid-day
when the temperature is highest.

? Increase the physical exertion gradually to enable
physiological adjustment to high heat in summer.
? In case of dizziness,
? Headache,
? Faint-ness,
? Blurring vision and
? Vomiting

? Immediate rest in shade,
?Cool place,
?Drinking of water preferably with salt,
?Loosening or removal of clothing to
allow ventilation.

REFERENCES
? Neelam Kumari A Textbook of Community Health
Nursing - I ,2011 Edition , Published by Pee Vee
( Regd .), Page reffered to 580- 581.
? /MrPramitKumarSah/stroke-
presentation-77800548
? /harshrastogi1/stroke-95028720
? /rudra111/stroke-ppt-78095903

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