Nurse strategy in the prevention of acute cerebrovascular accident in young adult population

Abstract

Strokes in young users generate a high number of deaths, and a high rate of disability in this population, causing a demand for care and attention that influence both the affected person and their family. The health professional has to carry out a crucial task in the early identification of risk factors, as well as developing effective prevention measures to solve this problem. For this reason, the objective of this narrative review is to analyze the preventive measures carried out by nursing professionals in the care of young patients susceptible to having a stroke, due to the high increase in its incidence. The search for the articles was carried out in various scientific databases with the help of a search string, which combined the keywords and Boolean operators. Twenty-four studies were selected, which indicated that most preventive measures focus on factors such as hypertension, without taking into account its predictive factors, such as substance abuse. Using the ASCO etiologic classification helps establish a more accurate etiologic diagnosis. Nursing plays a fundamental role in maintaining secondary prevention measures, since 40 and 50% of patients abandon treatment after two or three years.