With National Stroke Awareness Month quickly approaching, it’s time to plan your awareness events. National Stroke Association’s new Stroke Awareness Resource Center includes promotional tools, community education presentations, videos and discussion guides to enhance your current awareness plans or to help you create new ones. What are you doing to promote stroke awareness this May?

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

The Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases is published by Elsevier for National Stroke Association and the Japan Stroke Society. The Index Medicus journal publishes original papers on basic and clinical science related to the fields of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases. The journal also features review articles, controversies, methods and technical notes, selected case reports and other original articles of special nature. Its editorial mission is to focus on the prevention and repair of cerebrovascular disease. Learn more about the journal here.

Managing Atrial Fibrillation to Prevent Stroke

National Stroke Association, in a joint sponsorship with Heart Rhythm Society, is implementing a year-long education initiative to close the gap between knowledge and practice with regard to atrial fibrillation and stroke. The multicomponent program will feature grand rounds, webinars, Internet Point of Care and an online resource center. Our first step in understanding the issue is gathering information from healthcare professionals using a case-based assessment. The survey will allow Program Chairs Dr. Philip Gorelick and Dr. Jonathan Halperin to gather information on current practices in an effort to create an educational program designed to make change in methods toward reducing the prevalence of stroke.