29-10-09: Today is Stroke Day. As doctors, we must understand that stroke is as dangerous as heart attack.The risk factors, prevention and treatment modalities are same for both heart attack and brain attack. TIA is now defined as transient reversible neurological deficit and the window must be less than 1 hour. Therefore, between 1 to 4.5 hours if a patient comes with the complaint of paralysis, he needs immediate CT scan to rule out cerebral bleeding and if absent, patient needs immediate tPA thrombolysis.
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