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Gugging Swallowing Screen (GUSS).To harmonize post-stroke care Brainin initiated the development of the Post Stroke Checklist (PSC). A focus of his research was Post-Stroke Cognitive Decline: He initiated and carried out with his team the first randomized polyintervention trial (ASPIS)
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Gugging Hospital where, in 1997, he founded the first acute stroke unit in Austria. From 2007 he moved as chair and professor to the neurological department of the newly founded University Hospital Tulln. Until his
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Austrian Stroke Society (ÖGSF) and was elected as its first president, where he pioneered the planning and establishment of acute stroke units. He also established the first stroke database in Austria, from which the Austrian Stroke Unit Register emerged.
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