Problems of new caregivers of persons with stroke.

Nine adult caregivers new to the role of caring for persons with stroke, upon discharge from rehabilitation centers in Ohio and Michigan and living farther away from formalized support services than urban caregivers, were enrolled for 3 months in a Web-based intervention project that examined the feasibility of the intervention and described the experience of caring. This article is an analysis of qualitative data from the intervention project that used a rigorous protocol to examine 68 perceived problems reported in caring. Problem themes in order of most to least frequent were 1) having independence issues, 2) dealing with emotions, 3) living with physical limitations, 4) managing co-morbid conditions, 5) balancing it all, 6) participating in physical therapy, and 7) having sleeping issues.

L-arginine treatment in ischemia/reperfusion injury.

We tested whether treatment with exogenous L-arginine, the precursor of nitric oxide (NO), could protect the skeletal muscle from ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. A rabbit hindlimb I/R model (2.5 h ischemia/2 h reperfusion) was used.