Academic Press TeleStroke

Telestroke helps readers develop a deeper understanding on how to utilize telestroke in clinical practice, a key step in providing optimal treatment and management to those with geographical and social/economic disparities. The book discusses how to provide accurate and fast revascularization for patients with acute ischemic stroke and how to continue remote care of patients. It also reviews underlying stroke etiology, interpretation and assessment of stroke diagnostic tools/teleradiology, complications of care, discusses targeted, secondary preventative therapies and covers telerehabilitation, outpatient follow-up and clinical trial engagement. Review " TeleStroke by Dr. Sharma is one of the first books on the use of telemedicine in stroke care. The book not only covers technical and clinical aspects of using telemedicine in stroke care but also touches on history, legal aspects of it along with telestroke in pediatrics and outpatient practice. I highly recommend it to not only physicians early in their career, learning to do telemedicine but also experienced neurologists who already practice telestroke as a comprehensive review." --Ali Reza Noorian, MD, FAHA, Director, Stroke Program, Kaiser Permanente Orange County Review A practical guide on how to incorporate telemedicine into inpatient and outpatient stroke practices From the Back Cover Given the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need for a practical guide to incorporate telemedicine into inpatient and outpatient stroke practices. It is important to understand how to rapidly implement as well as understand the recent changes to telehealth coding and billing. Several other challenges include ethical, documentation requirements, screening tools, medicolegal liability, neurological examination, patients without smartphones or broadband internet service at home. Telestroke helps develop a deeper understanding of how to utilize telestroke in clinical practice, as this is key to providing optimal treatment and management and removing geographical and social/economic disparities in access to expert stroke care. The book discusses how to provide accurate and fast revascularization for patients with acute ischemic stroke and to continue remote care of that patient after the hyperacute management. It also reviews the underlying stroke etiology, interpretation and assessment of stroke diagnostic tools/teleradiology, complications of care, discuss targeted secondary preventative therapies, telerehabilitation and outpatient follow up and clinical trial engagement. About the Author Dr. Sharma is an Associate Professor of Neurology at UCLA and holds program appointments as Associate Director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center, Stroke Center Quality Director, Director of the UCLA TeleStroke Program and Associate Director of the Vascular Neurology Residency Program. Dr. Sharma attended medical school and completed her neurology residency at Indiana University. She did her medical internship at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Sharma completed her Vascular Neurology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sharma has extensive experience in developing novel technologies for stroke care. As a fellow, she was awarded the AAN Clinical Research Fellowship Award to further her research in Hyperdynamic Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke. As Director of the UCLA TeleStroke program, she established and reinforced UCLA’s relationships with several Los Angeles County and California hospitals to provide teleconsultations for TIA and stroke patients. Dr. Sharma serves as an advisor to the UCLA Mobile Stroke Unit. Dr. Sharma also led a UCLA NIH-SPOTRIAS study to determine whether mobile cellphone video technology can be used as a tool to assess stroke-related neurologic deficits and she has also led a study on the use of wearable technology in remote evaluation of stroke patients. Dr. Sharma s