Collaboration and implementation of an annual comprehensive stroke education program.

Collaboration among all stakeholders is imperative in the design of a program to meet the educational needs of non-clinical staff as well as medical-surgical, transitional care, and critical care nurses to provide quality care for stroke patients. The responsibility for educating hospital employees most often falls to staff development educators. The described program is unique in that direct-care nurses played an integral role in the development, implementation, and maintenance of this annual program.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

Early recognition of this drug-induced condition can prevent death.

Systemic administration of monosodium glutamate elevates intramuscular glutamate levels and sensitizes rat masseter muscle afferent fibers.

There is evidence that elevated tissue concentrations of glutamate may contribute to pain and sensitivity in certain musculoskeletal pain conditions. In the present study, the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) was injected intravenously into rats to determine whether it could significantly elevate interstitial concentrations of glutamate in the masseter muscle and whether MSG administration could excite and/or sensitize slowly conducting masseter afferent fibers through N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activation. The interstitial concentration of glutamate after systemic injection of isotonic phosphate-buffered saline (control) or MSG (10 and 50mg/kg) was measured with a glutamate-selective biosensor.