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Free Stroke Booklets
These Stroke booklets are informative and easy to understand.
To order free copies go to strokenz@stroke.org.nz
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3. Information for Carers >
4. Positioning for left hemiplegia
5. Positioning for right hemiplegia
Free pamphlets
He Toto Rere Pai He Tohu Ora – Lower Blood Pressure means Lower
Stroke Risk – information for Maori about blood pressure and stroke
The Stroke Foundation have just released the NZ Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA). These unique guidelines have been compiled by three Stroke Foundation medical advisors to help GPs and DHBs deal more effectively with TIAs. If implemented correctly, these guidelines may save hundreds of lives and millions of dollars in direct health costs.
click here to download a full copy of the Guidelines
Click here to download TIA User Guide >
The Stroke Foundation recently released a fully upgraded and updated booklet - Understanding and Preventing Stroke and TIA. For a copy, either email National Office or your Regional Office, or click here to download Understanding and Preventing Stroke and TIA.
Free A4 info sheets
1. Coping with Stress (pdf 248KB) >
2. Fatigue after Stroke (pdf 156KB) >
3. Emotional & Behavioural Changes after Stroke (pdf 52KB) >
Translations of Stroke information:
Download our papers on Preventing Stroke as a PDF format in the following languages. (You will require Adobe Acrobat reader to view the file, download it here
Mandarin/English (pdf 284KB) >
Maori (pdf 48KB) >
Cook Island Maori (pdf 156KB) >
Tongan (pdf 228KB) >
Samoan (pdf 212KB) >
Stroke Awareness Free resources:
To order free copies go to strokenz@stroke.org.nz
Stroke Awareness FAST cardsStroke Awareness A3 & A4 FAST posters
Stroke Awareness FAST fridge magnets
Management of Stroke
Life After Stroke: NZ guideline for management of stroke.
Best practice evidence-based guideline Nov 2003. To download a copy of the full Guidelines go to: www.nzgg.org.nz/guidelines/0037/ACF291F.pdf
Or for a copy of the Summary of the Guidelines, go to:
www.nzgg.org.nz/guidelines/0037/Stroke_Summary.pdf
Stroke Foundation of N.Z. Inc (National office)
P O Box 12482
L1, Federation House
95-99 Molesworth Street
WELLINGTON
Tel: 04 472 8099
0800 STROKE (0800 78 76 53)
E-mail: strokenz@stroke.org.nz
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