What is a Stroke
Stroke or a Brain Attack is a medical emergency
This happens abruptly
This is due to a disease of the blood vessels in the brain which either get blocked or rupture.
This leads to decrease in blood supply to the brain tissue which cannot get enough oxygen and nutrition and therefore dies.
This is known by other names as a cerebrovascular accident
What is a Stroke
Stroke or a Brain Attack is a medical emergency
This happens abruptly
This is due to a disease of the blood vessels in the brain which either get blocked or rupture.
This leads to decrease in blood supply to the brain tissue which cannot get enough oxygen and nutrition and therefore dies.
This is known by other names as a cerebrovascular accident
What are the Symptoms of Stroke
B
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
E
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
F
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
A
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
S
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
T
SUDDEN LOSS OF BALANCE
What are the Risk Factors of Stroke
Modifiable
Risk Factors

Hypertension
Diabetes
Smoking
Overweight
Physical inactivity
Atrial fibrillation
Non Modifiable
Risk Factors

Age
Heredity
Race
Prior stroke
Gender
 
How to Prevent a Stroke

  • CONTROL
    BLOOD PRESSURE

  • STOP
    SMOKING

  • CONTROL
    DIABETES

  • TAKE NUTRITIOUS &
    LESS FAT DIET

  • REDUCE
    SALT INTAKE

  • REGULAR
    EXERCISE

  • REDUCE
    STRESS
How is a Stroke
Investigated and Treated

You will be asked some quick questions about when your stroke happened and your health and medications

A quick examination will be done

You will undergo a quick CT scan or MRI of your brain

If you have an Ischemic Stroke and are within 4.5 hours from your stroke onset, you will be offered a medicine to dissolve the clot in your blood vessel. This procedure is called "Thrombolysis"

If the clot is in a major vessel supplying your brain and depending upon the facility available at the hospital, a procedure called endovascular thrombectomy may be performed, to remove the clot from the blood vessel.

You will be admitted in a stroke unit for monitoring and investigations why the stroke happened.

Appropriate medications will be started like aspirin, blood pressure lowering drugs, cholesterol lowering medications, anti diabetic drugs etc.

Physiotherapy will be started for side that is weak.