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What is stroke? Lindley(2008) (stroke (a disease of brain caused by (a…
What is stroke? Lindley(2008)
stroke
the third most coommon cause of death(heart disease and cancer)
a disease of brain caused by
a blockage or rapture of the essential blood supply
mini-stroke or TIA warning sign of impending major stroke need to be taken seriously
useful new name for the first 24 hours of stroke or TIA:brain attack
key term
TIA:transient ischaemic attack (
https://www.stroke.org/understand-stroke/what-is-stroke/what-is-tia/
)
affect
people all of the age
most common old age
not had the profile of other perhaps less serious or rarer disorders and less well konwn to the general public
characteristic
blood supply to the brain is disrupted and part of the brain stop working
a rapidly fatal illness loss of sensation on one side of the body
hard to understand to the layman
hard for the doctors and nures to make a correct diagnosis
people not aware the problem lies within the brain
a headache a sign due to a brain haemorrahage
causes
ischaemic stroke:80% blokage or occlusion of the blood supply to the brain brain clot develop the blood vessel
primary intracerebral haemorhage:brain haemorrhage leakor brust the blood vessel 15%
subarachnoid haemorrahage :5% different treatment from ischaemic stroke and primary intracerebral haemorrhage