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Stroke unit care, inpatient rehabilitation and early supported discharge

Helen Rodgers and Chris Price
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-2-173
Clin Med April 2017
Helen Rodgers
ANewcastle University and honorary consultant stroke physician, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Roles: professor of stroke care
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BNewcastle University and honorary consultant stroke physician, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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ABSTRACT

Stroke units reduce death and disability through the provision of specialist multidisciplinary care for diagnosis, emergency treatments, normalisation of homeostasis, prevention of complications, rehabilitation and secondary prevention. All stroke patients can benefit from provision of high-quality basic medical care and some need high impact specific treatments, such as thrombolysis, that are often time dependent. A standard patient pathway should include assessment of neurological impairment, vascular risk factors, swallowing, fluid balance and nutrition, cognitive function, communication, mood disorders, continence, activities of daily living and rehabilitation goals. Good communication and shared decision making with patients and their families are key to high-quality stroke care. Patients with mild or moderate disability, who are medically stable, can continue rehabilitation at home with early supported discharge teams rather than needing a prolonged stay in hospital. National clinical guidelines and prospective audits are integral to monitoring and developing stroke services in the UK.

KEYWORDS
  • Cerebrovascular disease
  • early supported discharge
  • multidisciplinary care
  • rehabilitation
  • stroke unit

Key points

  • All acute stroke patients should be treated on a stroke unit (a ward that cares almost exclusively for stroke patients) throughout their inpatient stay unless stroke is not the predominant medical problem

  • Specific emergency treatments are suitable for carefully selected patients (eg thrombolysis and thrombectomy) but provision of high-quality basic medical care is applicable to all patients and is key to improving outcome following acute stroke

  • Rehabilitation is increasingly based on evidence from clinical trials that should be considered in the context of individual patients’ problems and preferences

  • Early supported discharge should be provided by a single specialist multidisciplinary team to patients with mild/moderate disability; the service should begin within 24 hours of discharge and provide rehabilitation of the same intensity and skill mix as stroke unit care

  • High-quality research, national and local audits and quality improvement programmes have underpinned the development of evidence-based stroke units and early supported discharge services

Stroke units

Each year 152,000 people in the UK have a stroke.1 Randomised controlled trials and subsequent meta-analyses have clearly shown that care in a multidisciplinary stroke unit reduces death, disability and the need for institutionalisation when compared with general medical wards.2 These benefits are seen regardless of the patient's age, gender, stroke type (ie infarct or haemorrhage) or stroke severity (Fig 1).2 Based on a number needed to treat of 18, stroke units prevent death or dependency for 8,400 stroke patients per year.3 All acute stroke patients should be treated on a stroke unit (a ward that cares almost exclusively for stroke patients) throughout their inpatient stay unless stroke is not their predominant medical problem. 4

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Stroke unit care reduces death and institutionalisation. Reproduced with permission from the Stroke Unit Triallists’ Collaboration.2

Recently, stroke services in many areas have been reorganised to improve the quality and efficiency of care.5 Hyperacute stroke units (HASUs) provide

  • rapid specialist assessment and diagnosis on the HASU or in the associated accident and emergency department

  • hyperacute treatment, eg thrombolysis

  • physiological and neurological monitoring

  • early rehabilitation.

Stroke patients usually remain on a HASU for up to 72 hours and are then transferred to an acute stroke unit or stroke rehabilitation unit. Some stroke services have a comprehensive stroke unit that provides hyperacute care, acute care and rehabilitation.

A multidisciplinary stroke unit team consists of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, clinical/neuropsychologists, dieticians and social workers.4 Input may also be provided by pharmacists, orthotics, orthoptists and chiropodists. The stroke unit has close links with radiology, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, neurology, geriatric medicine and cardiology. The multidisciplinary stroke unit team aims to provide personalised holistic care and meets regularly to share updates and plan care. This is usually a weekly multidisciplinary team meeting lasting for 2–3 hours, but many stroke units also have a short ‘board round’ at least once per day. Patients and their families are actively involved in their care and receive consistent information and support. Stroke unit teams have protocols for common problems and provide a training programme for all team members.3,4 They work closely with other components of the stroke service, early supported discharge teams and community services to plan for transfer of care.

Medical care of stroke patients

Doing the simple things well is fundamental to improving outcome following acute stroke and the importance of providing high-quality basic medical care cannot be over emphasised. National audit data has shown that well organised stroke units that provide timely assessments and treatments have lower mortality rates.6 There are highly effective treatments for carefully selected patients, eg thrombolysis, thrombectomy, blood pressure control for primary intracerebral haemorrhage, and decompressive hemicraniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction.4,7,8 These treatments are time dependent and organised stroke care enables clinicians to respond quickly and efficiently. However, improved outcomes were associated with stroke units prior to these interventions being available.

Clinical deterioration

Patients should be monitored for early and late clinical deterioration. Prompt action to determine a neurological or non-neurological cause (Table 1) and early treatment is essential.

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Common causes of clinical deterioration following acute stroke

Temperature, blood sugar, oxygen, blood pressure

Pyrexia early post-stroke can be due to stroke per se or the presence of infection and is associated with a worse outcome. A source of infection should be sought and paracetamol administered as an antipyretic. Hyperglycaemia can occur acutely after stroke and is associated with a poor outcome regardless of diabetic status.9 Rigorous glycaemic control has not been shown to improve outcome and current guidelines recommend that blood sugar should be maintained between 5–15 mmol/L.4 Routine supplementation of oxygen has not been shown to improve outcome following acute stroke but should be used when patients are hypoxic. Acute blood pressure lowering is only recommended if there is an indication for emergency treatment, eg primary intracerebral haemorrhage (150 mmHg systolic) or thrombolysis (185/110 mmHg), and an appropriate protocol for dose titration is available.4 Regular use of protocols for the management of abnormal physiological parameters on stroke units has been shown to improve clinical outcomes.10

Fluids, swallowing, prophylactic antibiotics, feeding, oral hygiene

As dehydration and malnutrition can easily occur after a stroke, a patient's intake of fluid and food and their nutritional status should be closely monitored.11 Dysphagia affects up to 55% of stroke patients and all patients with suspected stroke should remain nil by mouth and receive intravenous or subcutaneous fluids until their ability to swallow safely has been assessed by a trained nurse soon after admission.12 Patients who are screened as being unsafe to swallow should remain nil by mouth and receive non-oral feeding via a nasogastric tube if this is in keeping with the patient's wishes. An early detailed assessment by a speech and language therapist is desirable but nasogastric feeding should not be delayed if this is not available. Videofluoroscopy or fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing may be useful for more detailed assessment of patients with persistent dysphagia. Patients with dysphagia beyond 4 weeks or who cannot tolerate a nasogastric tube may require a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.4 Pneumonia frequently occurs in patients with dysphagia but two recent randomised controlled trials found that prophylactic antibiotics provided no benefit in terms of prevention of this complication.13,14 Maintaining good oral hygiene is important but can be difficult when a patient is unable to clean their teeth. Stroke units should regularly assess a patient's oral hygiene and ensure that staff are trained to provide appropriate oral care.4

Prevention of deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism

Deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) are common complications post-stroke.15–18 Prophylactic low dose heparin should not be used early after stroke as although this treatment does reduce the risk of DVT and PE, it increases the risk of haemorrhagic transformation of a cerebral infarct.17 Graduated pressure stockings are not effective in preventing DVT and PE post-stroke and may precipitate limb ischaemia.16 Intermittent pneumatic compression is the treatment of choice as this reduces the incidence of DVT and death post-stroke.15

Bladder, bowels and skin

Urinary incontinence affects up to 40–60% of acute stroke patients.19 The cause of incontinence should be sought, eg pre-existing stress incontinence, urinary tract infection, immobility. Regular toileting can significantly reduce incontinence for patients with cognitive, communication or mobility problems. Urinary catheters should be avoided unless the patient has urinary retention, a sacral pressure sore or if accurate monitoring of fluid balance is essential. Constipation is common after stroke and bowel charts should be used to monitor bowel action with laxatives prescribed, if needed. Pressure sores are avoidable and good skin care, regular turning, pressure-relieving mattresses and specialist seating can reduce their incidence.

Palliative care

14% of acute stroke patients die in hospital and 5% receive palliative care within 72 hours of admission.4 It is important that stroke unit teams have the skills and expertise to provide high-quality care. Palliative care services can provide valuable input for complex cases and support a discharge home.

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation aims to maximise a patient's intrinsic and adaptive recovery by addressing specific impairments (eg weakness), activity limitation (eg difficulty walking), restricted social participation (eg less contact with friends) and overall quality of life. Rehabilitation should be personalised, taking into account not only the problems resulting from stroke but also comorbidities and the patient's views and preferences. The potential problems that stroke patients may experience are extensive and listed in the National clinical guideline for stroke (Box 1).4

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Some problems are very apparent but others are only identified after careful assessment, so screening tools should be routinely used – especially for cognitive and mood disorders. The nature, implications and treatment of problems due to stroke should be explained to patients and their families, who should be regularly updated and involved in decision making. Training should be offered to families, especially for communication and cognitive problems.

Research evidence is unclear about the optimal frequency, intensity and duration of rehabilitation. Greater intensity of practice is generally associated with improved functional outcomes.20–22 Current guidelines are pragmatic, recommending that ‘people with stroke should accumulate at least 45 minutes of each appropriate therapy every day, at a frequency that enables them to meet their rehabilitation goals, and for as long as they are willing and capable of participating and showing measurable benefit from therapy’.4 However, recent research suggests that the timing and intensity of early rehabilitation needs to be carefully considered. Non-compliance and dropout rates are higher if speech and language therapy interventions are commenced early after stroke.23 The results of an international multicentre trial, which compared the effectiveness of usual care versus frequent, high-dose mobilisation starting within 24 hours of stroke, showed worst outcomes for the intervention group.24,25 At 3 months, 46% of those in the intervention group had no or minimal disability compared with 50% in the control group (adjusted odds ratio 0.73, 95% CI 0.59–0.90, p=0.004).25 Guidelines now recommend that patients should receive frequent, short, early mobility interventions each day once medically stable.4 Therapy should be task specific, progressive, practised frequently and incorporated into the patient's daily routine.4

Reduced mobility often dominates early therapy after stroke. Task-specific training may improve sit to stand and functional walking.26 Short-term improvements in balance and walking have been found with foot orthosis.27 Leg strengthening exercises, circuit classes and treadmill training (without body weight support) have been shown to be effective.28 Loss of arm function affects 69% of acute stroke patients.29 Moderate-quality evidence supports the use of constraint-induced movement therapy, mental practice, mirror therapy, unilateral arm training, virtual reality, high-dose repetitive task training and interventions for sensory impairment, but further research is needed.22 Robot-assisted training is also a promising intervention for patients with moderate/severe upper limb weakness.30

Aphasia affects nearly one third of stroke patients and can have a major impact on their lives and relationships. Speech and language therapy can improve functional communication, reading comprehension, specific language and writing.23 In addition to the cognitive effects of stroke, psychological problems are common and can impede recovery. Brief psychological interventions, eg motivational interviewing or problem-solving therapy, may be helpful. If this is not successful, antidepressant medication may also be needed. Fatigue is a common and under-recognised problem that should be discussed with patients and their families. It is helpful to identify triggers and strategies to manage the problem.

Prior to leaving hospital, patients should be advised about driving according to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency regulations.31 Patients who cannot return to driving 1 month post-stroke may wish to attend a specialised driving assessment centre. Stroke patients who are under retirement age may benefit from referral to a vocational rehabilitation scheme.

Early supported discharge

The median length of stay following acute stroke is now 7.3 days (interquartile range 2.8–23.1).32 Patients and their families should be fully involved in discharge planning and have a choice about the timing of discharge and the services received. The views and needs of carers should be considered, and appropriate training and support provided. At discharge, patients should be given a named point of contact for information and advice as well as written information about their diagnosis, medication and management plan.4

Early supported discharge (ESD) services consist of a single specialist multidisciplinary team that provides rehabilitation for selected patients at the same intensity and skillmix as a stroke unit. ESD is appropriate for patients with mild/moderate disability and should begin within 24 hours of discharge.4 Typically, the team consists of therapists, therapy assistants, nurses and support workers visiting a patient from one to four times per day. ESD has been shown to lead to better patient outcomes, increased satisfaction with care and lower NHS costs compared with conventional care.33 Prior to discharge, a member of the ESD team may undertake a home visit (with the patient) or an environmental visit (without the patient). The duration of ESD input depends on patient need although some services have a maximum length of input, eg 3 months, following which patients who need further rehabilitation are transferred to other community services.

Conclusion

Stroke is a common and disabling condition, but many patients benefit from the care delivered by a multidisciplinary specialist stroke service. The evidence for optimising recovery is still evolving and should be integrated into the patient care pathway with matching clinical documentation, protocols and staff training.

Conflicts of interest

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party who prepared the fifth edition of the National clinical guideline for stroke, 2016.

Author contributions

HR and CP wrote the paper.

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