Stroke
Stroke
A stroke occurs when blood flow has been obstructed to the brain. Checking for symptoms of a stroke can be done by using the acronym F.A.S.T. Facial droop, arm listing, slurred speech, and time when symptoms began. It is important to get medical treatment quickly to help the affected patient regain as much quality of life as possible.
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7.49 -> Speaker 2: Headache. Let's see what's on that
other thing, here. Help! Somebody... it hurts...
22.529 -> something's wrong with me, please somebody
call... help me help me please. Speaker 1:
30.599 -> Hey Carol, I heard you yell out for some help?
So listen, can you tell me what's going on?
37.51 -> Speaker 2: I don't feel good. Speaker 1: You
don't feel good? Speaker 2: No, my head hurts,
42.28 -> my neck. I just don't feel good. Speaker 1:
I see your remote down here. Did you drop
46.97 -> it? Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to change
the channel. Speaker 1: Can you do something
52.989 -> for me? Can you smile at me a second? A big
smile? Okay, good. Listen, I am gonna hold
60.75 -> your arms up here a moment, I don't want you
to let them drop. Just hold them both even.
66.189 -> Okay, good you can rest your arms again. Can
you say, I love my husband more than anybody?
74.329 -> Speaker 2: I love- Speaker 1: Okay good, that's
good. What time do you think this started?
84.749 -> Was it, can you, was it recently, was it long
time ago? Just nod your head up or down if
96.17 -> it was recently? Speaker 2: Yeah Speaker 1:
Okay, Carol, I don't wanna alarm you, but
102.2 -> I think you're showing enough symptoms that
we should suspect something serious, and we
107.369 -> should call for help, and get an ambulance
on the way. The hospital can certainly help
112.719 -> you, but you're having enough signs and symptoms
that I am concerned that it could be a stroke,
117.149 -> not that I am for sure, but I know that at
the hospital they can take better care of
121.899 -> you there than here at your home. Listen,
I think we're gonna give the ambulance a call,
128.319 -> and then if there is nothing you'll buy some
peace of mind okay. Okay, okay, and I am not
134.08 -> gonna leave you either. I am gonna stay right
here, so don't worry about that. Now, let's
139.53 -> take a closer look at what a stroke is, how
the signs and symptoms help indicates to us
146.42 -> that its an emergency, and then what to do
in case we recognize those signs and symptoms.
151.53 -> So, a stroke has been said to be like an heart
attack, but in the brain, and the reason why
157.7 -> that analogy works is because we know more
about what causes strokes, and most of the
162.75 -> time in many cases, the reason they're having
a stroke is very similar to the reasons we're
168 -> having a heart attack. Something has dislodged
and blocked a vessel in the brain, and is
174.34 -> now starving that brain tissue of oxygenated
blood which is now begin to show affects neurologically
181.18 -> in the patient's body. Now, it can also be
caused from a breakage or a bursting of a
187.17 -> blood vessel. A hemorrhagic stroke is normally
caused from an aneurysm, and is treated differently
193 -> that we treat strokes from a blockage of a
blood clot, or a fatty clot. Let's talk about
198.98 -> the fast. The acronym fast is a way for us
to be able to check systematically if the
205.17 -> patient is showing enough signs and symptoms
that we should be concerned that they might
209.54 -> be suffering from a stroke, and then activate
emergency medical services. So let's break
214.4 -> down those for a moment. F stands for facial
drop. One of the ways to see this when its
220.18 -> maybe not real drastic is to have the patient
smile at you. When they smile, does one corner
227.65 -> of the mouth hang lower than the other? Then,
we move to A which stands for arm. Arm is
235.14 -> when we raise both patient's arms in front
of them, and the same side that they have
240.14 -> facial drop, the arm lists and kind of floats
away from the other arm. They're not able
245.47 -> to hold the arm up like they can the first
arm that's not affected. Then, we talk about
250.54 -> S, S stands for Slurred speech. To get them
to say something to you, because they're probably
256.459 -> be very panicked at this point. I like to
give them a humorous sentence to say back
261.109 -> to me, or maybe something about themselves,
or their date of birth, if they seem to be
265.979 -> slurring their speech, then that falls into
that category of S for stroke symptoms, and
272.349 -> then lastly T. T stands for time. What time
did the symptoms begin? The reason that this
279.759 -> is important, and why we wanna write this
down is to make sure we tell the responding
284.4 -> medical services is because, the time of the
essence. If we're going to try to recirculate
289.849 -> the oxygenated blood back to their brain tissue,
and help this patient recover with his little
296.05 -> long lasting damage as possible. So, if a
patient starts to show that signs and symptoms
302.4 -> under the fast acronym, we know that it is
important for us to reassure the patient that
307.979 -> we're gonna take good care of them, we're
not going to dessert them, but we're going
312.629 -> to activate 911 or the emergency medical services,
so that we can expedite the treatment of this
318.74 -> patient, and help them regain as much quality
of life as possible.
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