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Name three acute complications of i j v intervention 3 marks
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Patients who have had an acute stroke are at risk of developing a wide range of complications secondary to their stroke; these complications are important because they may cause death or delay successful rehabilitation.123 Several studies have shown that although deaths within a few days of stroke are usually the direct consequence of brain damage, those occurring over the following weeks are mainly due to potentially preventable problems such as infection, venous thromboembolism, or cardiac disease.45678 It has even been suggested that the effectiveness of organized stroke care in reducing mortality9 may be due to improvements in the prevention, identification, and treatment of secondary complications.10 Complication rates may also be a useful measure of outcome in comparative studies, and they have been used in both nonrandomized111213 and randomized controlled trials14 of stroke units.

Most of the published studies on post stroke complications have focused on individual problems in isolation, such as seizures, venous thromboembolism, or depression. These studies have used a range of different designs; furthermore, methods of patient selection, diagnostic criteria, timing, and duration of follow-up vary considerably between studies, and therefore it is hardly surprising that the reported frequencies of specific complications in these studies also varied (Table 1).

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