Symptoms
A symptom of the most common form of stroke.
What is: Confusion, Trouble Speaking, Trouble with seeing in one or both eyes, Dizziness, loss of balance or coordination, Sudden, severe headache with no known cause, Numbness
The main cause of an ischemic stroke.
What is a blood clot in the brain?
The first thing you should do if a person is having a stroke.
What is calling 911?
Forgetting to stay cool and letting your brain overheat can lead to this form of stroke.
What is a heat stroke?
The nation with the highest average risk of stroke among citizens.
What is the United States?
What is a Subarachnoid Hemorrhage?
Head trauma can cause a brain bleed, which can lead to this kind of stroke.
What is an inter-cerebral hemorrage?
If a person who is having a stroke is not responding, its important to lay them on their back flat with their head to the side as they could be having a ______.
What is a seizure?
Having had a stroke in the past increases your chance of getting a stroke in the future. True or False?
True.
More that half of people who die of strokes are _____.
Who are women?
The two forms of stroke are known to cause seizures.
What is Subarachnoid and Intercerebral hemorrhage?
A subarachnoid hemorrage can be triggered from this swelling in the arteries.
What is an aneurysm?
The most efficient yet hardest to recieve form of stroke treatment. The treatment involves removing plaque from carotid arteries in the brain.
What is a Carotid Endarterectomy?
The term for reular stress in a persons life. If unchecked can lead to issues with blood pressure.
What is Chronic Stress?
This condition has stroke in its name but is technically a different condition with different treatents all together.
What is a heat stroke?
Difficulty speaking is a sign that this has happened to your brain.
What is an embolic stroke?
A disease in which the patients red blood cell form sickle shapes. This disease can lead to blood issues in the brain leading to a stroke.
What is sickle cell anemia?
This open heart surgery procedure is done to open up coronary arteries to allow smoother blood flow reducing the risk of clots.
What is an Angioplasty?
Two hard drugs that are extreme risk factors that cause strokes.
What are cocaine and methamphetamine?
The acroynm B.E.F.A.S.T used to remember the sympoms of a stroke and what to do stands for _____.
What is Balance Eyes Face Arms Speech Time?
Acute facial paralysis is a symptom of this main form of stroke.
What is an Ischemic Stroke?
The only stroke that can happen basically spontaneously.
What is an intercerebral hemorrage?
A word to describe the surgery done on the areteries to detect and treat and vascular diseases. This procedure can be helpful in detecting potetential stroke warning signs.
What is endovascular surgery?
This disease causes lapses in breathing while asleep. The consequences of this disease could potentially lead to a stroke.
What is sleep apnea?
The first ever term used to describe a stroke in medical history.
What is 'apoplexy'?