Acute Stroke Service
Stroke is a medical emergency. It is crucial that patients receive the best possible treatment and care immediately following a stroke in order to ensure that they have the best possible outcome, and to reduce their risk of having a further stroke. The Stroke Association funds research into Acute Stroke Service, which explores how hospitals diagnose and treat stroke patients immediately after admission.
Clinical Pharmacology
Investigates how drugs, including their properties and effects, might be used to prevent and treat stroke.
Reducing the risk of stroke during surgery
Imaging
Improving our understanding of the cause and effect of stroke by using imaging techniques that produce pictures of the inside of the brain.
Monitoring blood sugar and blood flow to improve stroke outcome
Neuroprotection
Identifying changes in the brain and nervous system that may be the cause or effect of stroke.
Insulin treatment to reduce the severity of stroke in patients with high blood sugar levels
Investigating the cause of brain damage in acute stroke
Primary Care
Exploring how the medical care received by stroke patients on first contact with the medical system can be improved.
Improving stroke recognition by ambulance services
Quality of life and communication
Investigating how stroke patients’ levels of independence, comfort, enjoyment, and ability to pursue daily activities can be improved.
Palliative care after stroke
Stroke Unit care
Investigating how the functions of specialised stroke units in hospitals can be improved.
The Feed or Ordinary Diet (FOOD) trials to assess feeding policy for patients with stroke
Enhancing swallowing assessment in stroke patients
Understanding the risk of Aspiration in acute stroke patients
Reducing the risk of Pneumonia in stroke patients who are fed via a tube
Recruitment of stroke patients to research trials after stroke
Surgical treatment
Exploring the potentials of surgery in the prevention and treatment of stroke.
Can the damage caused by Subarachnoid Haemorrhage be reduced by increased blood flow in the brain?
Vascular Pathology
Furthering our understanding of how structural and functional changes in blood vessels may be the cause or effect of stroke.
Assessing the effect of blood pressure treatment immediately after stroke
Managing blood pressure immediately following stroke
