This dissolves the cerebral artery occlusion to re-establish blood flow to the brain and it prevents cerebral infarction.
What is Intravenous thrombolytic therapy?
100
This is how many people, on average, experience a stroke every year.
What is 795,000?
100
This American TV icon recently passed away, but was the host of New Year's Eve festivities, even after suffering a stroke in 2004.
Who is Dick Clark?
100
This New York-based rock band brought back garage rock in 2001 with their album "Is This It"
Who are The Strokes
200
The loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing
What is agraphia?
200
This is the level that the head of the bed should be set at.
What is thirty degrees or less?
200
This is the type of stroke that has a SLOW onset.
What is a thrombotic stroke?
200
This magazine publisher, who lives in a mansion that hosts ridiculous parties, suffered a stroke in his late 50s.
who is Hugh Hefner?
200
Ask Michael Phelps to demonstrate this swimming technique.
What is the Breaststroke?
300
Loss of ability to understand or express speech.
What is aphasia?
300
This is how you intervene if a patient is immobile.
What is turning and re-positioning every 2 hours.
300
This is the type of stroke that has a sudden onset.
What is embolic stroke?
300
Don't worry, this singer isn't going to slap anybody, but after singing hits such as "Super Freak" and "Mary Jane," he suffered a stroke in 1998.
Who is Rick James
300
Will Ferrell figure skates to Billy Squier's "The Stroke" in this 2007 comedy.
What is Blades of Glory?
400
This is when you have trouble comprehending the written word.
What is alexia?
400
This is what you should do if a patient cannot tolerate regular liquids.
What is thicken the liquids?
400
This is the type of stroke that is seen with increased blood pressure, especially in the case of cocaine abuse.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
400
This Poison front-man surprisingly suffered a TIA, or a precursor to a stroke, in 2010. What's more surprising is he did not get an STD on his show, "Rock of Love."
Who is Bret Michaels
400
Stroke play is a scoring system used in this sport.
What is golf?
500
Drooping of the upper eyelid due to paralysis or disease
What is ptosis?
500
This is the time-frame that intravenous thrombolytic therapy must be given in.
What is three hours or less?
500
These are three risk factors of stroke.
What is A-fib, TIA, previous stroke, smoking, obesity, diabetes, valve disease, substance abuse, old age, male, certain ethnicities, etc.
500
This English writer of literary classics such as "A Christmas Carol" and "A Tale of Two Cities" suffered a stroke in 1869.
Who is Charles Dickens?
500
This film, based on the memoir of the same name, describes Jean-Dominique Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke.