BioScan touch i8 Could Provide Understanding of Changes in Stroke Patients
Stroke is a devastating disease with high morbidity and mortality. The effects of a stroke are common in most people. There are many conditions that may develop after a stroke. It’s important to understand the effects of a stroke and how to improve patient outcome.
Nutritional depletion is also associated with the worse patient outcome. Therefore proper assessments are needed for nutritional status which could help to minimise or prevent complications, readmissions and mortality rates.
Following a stroke there is a high risk of falls, this could also lead to fractures, the fear of falling, activity restriction and depression. The assessment of Body Composition in stroke patients is extremely important in order to better understand the effect of:
- Loss of Lean Mass
- Fat Mass
- Malnutrition
- Bone Mineral Content
- Fluid Balance
- Hypertensive
- Segmental Assessment of effected and non-effected body sides
Monitoring Changes Which are Vital in Treating the Disease
In stroke patients not only is Body Fat lost but also Body Cell Mass and Body Mineral Density. Monitoring these changes, which may go unnoticed, is vital due to the severity of disease. In bed bound stroke patients loss of bone mineral and lean muscle mass is rapid. Monitoring these changes after a stroke is essential in order to slow the loss of Muscle Mass and bone mineral.
Furthermore in clinical patients with oedema the assessment of Malnutrition is difficult as oedema can be a confounding factor. Increase in weight due to the accumulation of fluids will not be representative of the true individual status. Patients with oedema are severely malnourished. Consequently, assessment and treating malnutrition in a stroke patient is important and can lead to improved patient outcome.
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