The Bottom Line: The prehospital management section focuses on limiting delays and recognizes that interhospital transfers of acute stroke patients for higher-level care are increasingly common.

Acute ischemic stroke remains one of medicine’s most time-sensitive emergencies. When blood flow to the brain becomes blocked, approximately 1.9 million neurons die each minute without intervention.

Stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) symptoms and signs vary. TBI includes light, noise sensitivity; stroke presents with facial drooping.

The past year saw advances in endovascular treatment for acute stroke, speech therapy for aphasia after stroke, and cardiac disease management to prevent stroke. These treatments were characterized by ...

Since 2022, the hospital has not been providing the life-saving, clot-dissolving TPA drug and instead sending stroke patients ...

Patients with acute ischemic stroke treated in mobile stroke units have better outcomes, with lower global disability scores, faster thrombolysis times, and comparable safety outcomes, than those ...

Stroke is a condition where an artery supplying blood to the brain tissues is ruptured causing the formation of blood clot in the brain and interfering with the supply of blood and oxygen to the brain ...

47 recommendations developed in areas relevant to primary care, including transition to community, motor therapy, mental health. (HealthDay News) — In clinical practice guidelines jointly issued by ...

Our team of highly trained stroke experts designed the Stroke Rehabilitation program to help restore order in your life using state-of-the-art practices and technology at our Craig H. Neilsen ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Stroke is one of the most feared complications of surgery. to provide adequate preventive and therapeutic measures, physicians need to be knowledgeable about the risk factors for stroke during the ...