Introduction: Many patients may not recognize the initial symptoms of TIA or stroke and delay seeking urgent medical care, leading to missed treatments and worse outcomes. Diagnostic decision support ...

If indicated, the patient will be scheduled for an MRI within 24 hours and/or an echocardiogram within 48 hours of the TIA clinic visit. Stroke nurses are available to reinforce lifestyle counseling ...

Eight years ago, at the age of 53, Jeff Miller woke up, got out of bed and fell to the floor. Although he was having trouble seeing, he managed to get down the stairs to the first floor of his ...

Nurses need to be hypervigilant when administering oral medications to patients who have experienced a TIA that may have included some of these same symptoms. The FDA recommends that patients take ...

An average of 1.9 million nerve cells die every minute when a stroke occurs, and it's possible to catch it before it happens ...

The patient who has experienced TIA is at risk for altered cerebral ... of neurological status for any further signs and symptoms of altered cerebral tissue perfusion that may indicate a ...

Risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding, is affected by severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. An independent association exists between left ...

A blood test may rapidly distinguish brain bleeds from clot-caused strokes, even before people with stroke symptoms reach the ...

From 1979-85, 2435 patients with a transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke were randomly allocated to receive long term "blind" treatment with aspirin 600 mg twice daily (n = 815), ...

Seven different doctors dismissed her theory, she says, before one finally agreed to test Walilko’s boyfriend—who was ...

Sinusitis can cause facial pressure, sinus headache, and other symptoms. Treatment may depend on the cause. A sinus infection, also known as sinusitis or rhinosinusitis, occurs when your nasal ...