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Acute stroke
1Emergency Department, Park Ridge Hospital, Rochester, New York, USA.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
Disruption of cerebral blood flow may influence brain energy metabolism to produce reversible or irreversible neurologic deficits. The emergency physician is in a unique position to provide timely treatment during the first few hours of an acute stroke. He or she must be facile with unique pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment designed for the stroke patient concerning ventilation, blood pressure, and circulation.