Ways to identify a stroke and save a life
candyliquor35m
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This has probably made its way to everyones mailbox before but this is the first I saw it since I'm not in corporate america anymore getting all the jokes and chain emails. Truth or fiction? I have no idea.
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR. Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently: It is sunny out today.)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
{NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke}
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR. Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently: It is sunny out today.)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
{NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke}
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 9-1-1 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
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So, I just walk up to people randomly and ask them to do these things?Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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RuSsMaN wrote:So, I just walk up to people randomly and ask them to do these things?
No, just us old farts!:D"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
RuSsMaN wrote:So, I just walk up to people randomly and ask them to do these things?
It works best at the bar just before last call for alcohol. -
Yeah, call the ambulance and then somewhere down the line they will probably get some sort of mercury laced injection then they'll be REALLY f&*ked.
BDTI plan for the future. - F1Nut -
sucks2beme wrote:No, just us old farts!:D
Sadly it isn't just old people....young people can have strokes too. -
TroyD wrote:Yeah, call the ambulance and then somewhere down the line they will probably get some sort of mercury laced injection then they'll be REALLY f&*ked.
BDT
Damn man come on.....this was a very reasonable post by CL35m. -
BL, you gotta remember that BDT is in the AF and prob got smacked with Hg-laced shots back in Basic Training... come to think of it, so did I. :mad:;)
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BaggedLancer wrote:Damn man come on.....this was a very reasonable post by CL35m.
Thanks -
The symptoms of a stroke are also displayed by Bell's Palsey.
Which, luckily, start to go away after a couple of weeks/month.
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Yes I have to call **** on this one too.
My father had a stroke in the hospital and was given the reversal drug within minutes. It helped but he is far from being 100 percent and had it not been for one helluva rehab center in Spartanburg, SC my brother and I would have to see him in a rest home.polkaudio SRS (rdo194 x 8)
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total reversal or not, quick identification is HUGE
I'm pretty sure they use clotbusters to break up a full on stroke
more time a part of the brain is without Oxygen, the worse you are.
Candy's info is mostly accurate (expept maybe the 100% reversal part) I would say possible, but not all the time. still, <3hrs DRASTICALLY reduces permanent life altering symptoms and death
and yes, I still gargle with Listerine and Mercury on a daily basis
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