TIAs or mini strokes - what are the signs?
TIAs or mini strokes - what are the signs?
http://sunnyview.sunnybrook.ca // TIAs (transient ischemic attacks) are like mini strokes that put people at serious risk of having a full-blown stroke often within days. For any sudden onset of speech problems, vision problems, problems moving one side of the body or other, call 911 and go to the emergency room right away.
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4.02 -> Looking at Arnold Bobkin on the green, you'd never guess what he'd been through
8.03 -> only a few months ago. I was almost finished showering
12.04 -> when I noticed I couldn't move, seemed to be paralyzed
16.05 -> and was afraid if I took a step that I would fall over. Arnold was having a TIA
20.08 -> short for transient ischemic attack. TiAs are
24.11 -> like mini strokes and put people at serious risk for having a full blown stroke
28.17 -> often within days. Luckily, Bobkin's wife
32.2 -> recognized the problem. She said, you've had a mini stroke
36.24 -> we're going to the hosptial immediately. And we came down here
40.27 -> to Sunnybrook, met up with
44.3 -> a whole team of doctors very quickly in emergency and told them
48.34 -> the story and met up with Dr. Swartz
52.38 -> and a few of the other guys. He was now in the hands of Sunnybrook's TIA
56.42 -> dream team, a group of specialists running a clinic rarely seen
60.45 -> in Canada, who diagnose and treat TIAs before they become a
64.5 -> bigger, potentially deadly or debilitating problem.
68.51 -> Patients at risk are screened and then followed up right away. We'll
72.52 -> bring them in and get urgent dopplers the
76.53 -> morning after, so if they go home on a Monday night, on Tuesday
80.53 -> they'll be in getting carotid doppler ultrasounds to look for severe narrowings in the
84.54 -> vessels of the neck. That narrowing of the neck, as you can see in this image
88.56 -> on the right, is one of the biggest risk factors for having a full blown stroke
92.57 -> and the fix is often surgery to remove the plaque.
96.58 -> With this kind of interventions, studies have showns that stroke rates after a TIA
100.61 -> go from ten percent down to two percent.
104.62 -> Every ten minutes, someone in Canada is disabled or dies from a stroke.
108.63 -> A fate Sunnybrook's Stroke Prevention Clinic is trying to change with this
112.65 -> innovative approach to care. Good thing for patients like Arnold, who
116.7 -> says his care was unbelievable. Within 24 hours,
120.74 -> the Sunnybrook vascular surgery team performed carotid surgery
124.78 -> and Arnold is now taking stroke prevention medication. I was
128.81 -> very surprised at the people who took care of me, the doctors
132.85 -> that took care of me, it was a hell of a team. For any sudden onset
136.88 -> of speech problems, visions problems, or problems
140.92 -> moving one side of the body or the other, we want
144.95 -> someone to come to emergency, call 911 right away. Even if it
148.99 -> gets better after fifteen or twenty minutes, that's a TIA. In hindsight, Arnold is
153.01 -> glad he didn't ignore the problem. Now the only stroke he's worried about
157.03 -> is the one affecting his game. With Sunnyview, I'm Monica Matys.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AolO-RWesUM