eLearning in less than 60 minutes

In this room you will find a series of workshops using a multimedia presentation of PowerPoint slides with audio commentary by the NPC team. You will need speakers and a sound card in your computer.

The outline of each of the short presentations is given below. Simply click on one of the underlined links and then click on the play icon to begin. You can jump forwards to skip a slide or backwards to repeat a slide by clicking the relevant slide on the left hand side of the console.

Intro - Drug treatment in secondary prevention of stroke (05min 36secs)

• What’s new since last update?
• What are the key questions?

Part 1- Background (24min 20secs)

• Background
  • What is the burden of stroke to the patient and society?
  • What are the risk factors associated with stroke?
  • What are the aims and options of treatments for secondary prevention?
• What are the latest guidelines and what do they recommend?

Part 2 - What is the evidence for antiplatelets? (21min 29secs)

• Which regimen and for how long?
• What about people with tolerability issues?

Part 3 - What is the evidence for other drugs? (23min 47secs)

• Which antihypertensive regimen?
• Which lipid-lowering regimen?

Part 4 - How well are we doing? (4min 54secs)

• Summary of secondary prevention