The aims of the RCH stroke program are:
To provide excellence in clinical care through a coordinated multidisciplinary program.
• Implementation of standarised treatment protocols, minimising risk of recurrent stroke.
• Early referral to rehabilitation services.
• Family education and reassurance.
• Provide a multidisciplinary stroke out-patient clinic.
• Ensure appropriate community-based follow up.
• Education to local health professionals regarding diagnosis and ongoing care.
• Local and national level advocacy, including support of Strokidz – the child stroke support group.
• Health and development following stroke in infants, children and adolescents.
• Attentional and social outcomes of prenatal and acquired brain injury. 2: Research
To establish RCH as the leading Australasian paediatric stroke research program.
• Maintain RCH’s major contribution to the International Paediatric Stroke Registry.
• Involvement in collaborative trials.
• Establish a stroke database.
• Develop stroke-specific imaging protocols to support clinical outcome research.
• Establish systems of research and local governance to ensure
• International Paediatric Stroke Study (registry).
• Specialised magnetic resonance (MR) imaging – what does it tell us about outcome of stroke.
• Delay to diagnosis of stroke in children.
For more information about the stroke program, contact:
Anne Gordon, stroke research coordinator for RCH and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
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