The Iowa Stroke Task Force Mission
...exists to assure all Iowans of standardized, timely, and appropriate stroke prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, regardless of location within the state, through the provision of education and policy development.
Iowa Stroke Task Force Members
The Task Force is comprised of members from many groups throughout Iowa. See list
Policies
- Evidence-based best practices
- Standards of care for stroke
- Establish a provider network
- A plan for implementation recommended to all Iowa hospitals
- Creation of a referral plan based on the capabilities of each provider to respond to stroke patients
- EMS by-pass to allow patients to be taken to the facility best able to treat stroke patients
- Acute Care
EMS - Rehabilitation
— Iowa Stroke Rehabilitation Resource Guide
This statement recommends that any coordinated stroke system should promote patient access to the full range of services associated with stroke prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, including the following key components more
Iowa Stroke Toolkit more
This online stroke toolkit was created to provide Iowa hospitals with the resources to treat acute stroke patients.
The toolkit includes the following:
• A Case for Change
• National Guidance and Parameters
• Tools
• Success Stories and Mentors
• Resources
Feedback Form
We value your feedback on the clinical tools library and its content. Please take a moment to provide us with your feedback on how we could make this toolkit better (e.g., additional tools and resources you would want to see available in the future).
Complete the Get With The Guidelines Toolkit Feedback Form.
We value your feedback on the clinical tools library and its content. Please take a moment to provide us with your feedback on how we could make this toolkit better (e.g., additional tools and resources you would want to see available in the future).
Complete the Get With The Guidelines Toolkit Feedback Form.
Supporting Guidelines
- Primary Prevention Guidelines
- Secondary Prevention Stroke Guidelines
- Consensus Statements from the Brain Attack Coalition on Primary and Comprehensive Stroke Centers
- Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care
- American Stroke Association Guidelines
Resources
Discharge Orders/Discharge Instructions
Dysphagia Screening Tools
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of dysphagia screening tools. This document is available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use dysphagia screening tools. By including this document on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that this document is complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own dysphagia screening tools based on their own procedures and professional experience.
- Beloit Memorial Hospital: Dysphagia Screening Tool
- Butler Memorial Hospital: Dysphagia Screening
- Oregon Health & Science University: Bedside Nurse Swallow Screen
- Palms of Pasadena Hospital: Swallow Screen
- St. Francis: Modified Massey Bedside Swallowing Screen
- University of Toledo Medical Center: Nursing Swallowing Screen
Order Sets
- Atlanta Medical Center Tenet Order Set: Acute Stroke Orders Following tPA Administration
- Atlanta Medical Center Tenet Order Sets: Acute ICH
- Atlanta Medical Center Tenet Order Sets: Acute Stroke Orders (non-r-tPA)
- California Pacific Medical Center Order Sets: ED Acute Stroke TIA
- Columbia St. Mary Order Set: Ischemic Stroke TIA
- Oregon Health & Science University Order Sets: ASH
- Oregon Health & Science University Order Sets: Ischemic
- Oregon Health & Science University Order Sets: Post tPA
- Oregon Health & Science University Order Set: Heparin
- Oregon Health & Science University: ED Acute Stroke
- Oregon Health & Science University: Craniotomy for Aneurysm Order Set
- Oregon Health & Science University: ED Observation Order Set
- Oregon Health & Science University: INR Post Embolization Ruptured Aneurysm
- Palms of Pasadena Hospital Order Sets: Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Palms of Pasadena Hospital Order Sets: tPA Ischemic Stroke
- Pinnacle Health Order Sets: Ischemic Stroke
- Pinnacle Health Order Sets: tPA
- St. Agnes and Waupun Hospital: Stroke TIA
- St. Vincent’s Medical Center Order Set: ED
Other
- Allegheny General Hospital: Stroke Audit Tool
- Atlanta Medical Center Tenet: Stroke Board
- Butler Memorial Hospital: Stroke Thrombolytic Therapy Checklist
- Columbia St. Mary's: Stroke Education Assessment Teaching Record
- Cullman Regional Medical Center: Quality Measures Booklet
- Forsyth Medical Center Code Purple Timeline
- Forsyth Medical Center Dashboard
- Massachusetts General Hospital: Adult Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Massachusetts General Hospital: BP Management
- Massachusetts General Hospital: Thrombolysis
- Massachusetts General Hospital: IV#IA Pretreatment
- Massachusetts General Hospital: IV t-PA Treatment
- Massachusetts General Hospital IV t-PA Administration
- Oregon Health & Science University: Practice Standard Inpatient Ischemic
- Oregon Health & Science University: Practice Standard for ED
- Oregon Health & Science University: Practice Standard tPA
- Oregon Health & Science University: Instructions for Dilution and Administration tPA
- Oregon Health & Science University: Practice Standard for Inpatients ICH
- Oregon Health & Science University: Practice Standard For Inpatients SAH
- Oregon Health & Science University: tPA Dosing Chart
- Oregon Health & Science University: Stroke Checklist
- SCA Prevention: AMI Patient Discharge Contract
- SCA Prevention: HF Patient Discharge Contract
- The Reading Hospital and Medical Center: t-PA worksheet
- The Reading Hospital and Medical Center: tPA Calculation Dosages
- UCLA: PROTECT Coverletter For Folders
- UCLA: PROTECT PCP Letter
- UCLA: Self Monitor Log for Clinic
- University of Toledo Medical Center: Patient Education Record
Pathways/Algorithms
Patient Education
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of patient education. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use patient education. By including this document on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own patient education based on their own procedures and professional experience.
- UCLA tPA Decision Visual Aid for Patients and Families
- ASA TJC CDC Stroke Consensus: Tool for Consensus
- North Shore Long Island Medical Center: Pt Education Sheet
- Palomar Palmorado Health Patient Education: After Your Stroke
- UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center: Stroke PROTECT Patient Report Card
- UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center: PROTECT Risk Factors
- www.giveme5forstroke.org
- Heart360
- Life's Simple 7
- http://www.strokecenter.org/trials/scales/nihss.html
*Note: You must be a Get With The Guidelines participating hospital in order to receive free access and the activation kit.
Specific Order Sets
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of specific order sets. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use specific order sets. By including this document on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own specific order sets based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Stroke Classification
These documents have been provided to the American Heart Association by the below hospitals as examples of stroke classification. These documents are available only to give you an idea of how some hospitals might use specific stroke classification. By including this document on its Web site, the American Heart Association does not represent that these documents are complete, accurate or efficacious, or that it follows all of the American Heart Association guidelines for secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular events or stroke. Hospitals should design their own specific order sets based on their own procedures and professional experience.
Stroke Center Certification
The American Stroke Association provides many resources to help hospitals become ready for certification, including ASTP and GWTG. For more information about TJC Primary Stroke Center Certification, visit www.jointcommission.org.
