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Inside Health: Aspirin, Stroke, Best Interests, Lasting Power of Attorney, Bawa Garba

31/07/2018

Aspirin, Stroke, Best Interests, Lasting Power of Attorney, Bawa Garba

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Aspirin, Stroke, Best Interests, Lasting Power of Attorney, Bawa Garba

A baby aspirin for heart attack or stroke, best interests and lasting powers of attorney.

If people who are taking low dose aspirin to protect against heart attack or stroke have not been weighed, there is a good chance they are on the wrong dose.

If you are taking low dose aspirin - typically 75 mg day - to protect against heart attack or stroke and you haven't been weighed then there is a good chance you are on the wrong dose. And from prevention to treatment; a new way of managing the most common form of stroke by grabbing the blockage in the brain and pulling it out. Charlotte Smith tells her story of a remarkable recovery from the procedure whilst she was pregnant with her second child. Plus a continuation of our guide to the help available when people lose the capacity to make decisions about their care. This week Mark Porter explains Best Interest Decisions and Lasting Power of Attorney. And GP Dr Margaret McCartney reflects on the Hadiza Bawa Garba case.

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