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Hospital and nursing leaders should provide disaster training opportunities that included topics such as compiling resource inventories, formulating disaster drills and simulations, managing emergencies, and using emergency communication methods. Health policy-makers should be required to prioritize capacity-building training for front-line nurses as well as to develop and implement disaster management plans to better prepare nurses for future disasters.

Background and Purpose-The relationship between chronic kidney disease and cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), especially enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS), has not been fully understood. This study aimed to investigate the association of chronic kidney disease and EPVS, as well as the total burden of cSVD on magnetic resonance imaging, expressed by the simultaneous presence of multiple markers of cSVD, among patients with first-ever lacunar stroke. Methods-Four hundred and thirteen consecutive patients were prospectively enrolled. Centrum semiovale and basal ganglia EPVS on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, as well as other imaging markers of cSVD, including lacune, white matter lesions, and cerebral microbleeds, were rated using validated scales. Chronic kidney disease was defined as either reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate or the presence of proteinuria. Results-After adjustments for potential confounders by logistic regression, proteinuria and impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate were correlated with the severity of EPVS in both centrum semiovale (odds ratio