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Overview
When there is an oxygen shortage in the brain, it is known as a stroke or brain attack. It may be brought on by a blockage in the blood supply or by the rupture of an artery supplying the brain. The patient may abruptly lose the ability to speak, experience memory loss, or develop paralysis on one side of the body.
Types of Brain Stroke
Hemorrhagic Stroke:
It happens when a blood clot (or thrombus) develops and obstructs blood flow to a portion of the brain, accounting for around three-quarters (or 80%) of all strokes. An embolus develops when a blood clot forms somewhere in the body and separates to float freely. The bloodstream may carry this errant clot to the brain, where it may result in an ischemic stroke.
Stroke with Hemorrhage:
It happens when a blood vessel on the surface of the brain bursts and leaks blood into the space between the brain and skull (subarachnoid haemorrhage), or when a faulty artery in the brain ruptures and leaks blood into the nearby tissue (cerebral haemorrhage). Haemorrhagic strokes account for 20% of cases.
Many stroke victims are left with weakness on one or both sides of the body, have trouble speaking, are incontinent, lose their capacity to think or communicate, are unable to move, or become bedridden. Brain injury and related problems can be reduced with early intervention.
Brain Strokes Symptoms
Brain cells start to die shortly after having a stroke, and symptoms arise. A stroke causes the death of 32,000 brain cells in just one second, and 1.9 million brain cells can perish from an ischemic stroke in the following 59 seconds. It is therefore imperative to identify these early signs because recovery depends on receiving therapy as soon as possible. Typical signs of a brain attack include:
sudden or severe onset of unconsciousness or dizziness
difficulty moving, loss of equilibrium, feeling, or coordination
difficulty with one or both eyesight
Speech issues
Having trouble swallowing
confusion or memory loss
muscle rigidity
Behavioral alterations
Blurred, darkened, or double vision Paralysis, numbness, or weakness on one side of the body
acutely painful headache
smaller strokes, or none at all
Approach
Acting FAST is the only strategy for stroke treatment. Ischemic stroke is best treated within six hours after the commencement of the cerebral attack because the clot can be broken up more successfully by administering injection r-tPA within four hours, and the results will be much better. Up to 6 hours, and in a small number of patients, up to 24 hours, can be allotted for mechanical thrombectomy.
Procedure
Healer's Hospital is equipped with a wide range of advanced technologies, including the following:
Biplane Cath Lab
Intraoperative CT
Neuro Navigation System
Intraoperative Neuro Monitoring system
Stereotaxy
EEG – Video, Ambulatory & Sphenoidal
Microscopic Surgery
High-intensity Microscope & Endoscope
ENMG (including single fibre EMG) & Intraoperative Evoked Potentials
Sleep Labs
The stroke treatment depends on which kind of stroke the patient had.