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“Imagine you break off your blood supply to the brain. Part of that brain gets no blood supply at all. It scars up and dies.”
Dr. Brett Whyte
“It's a sudden thing. You feel fine one minute and have symptoms the next.”
“The big thing is prevention.”
“If they say yes, I'll ask, ?How's that working for you?' You don't have to nag them.”
“One thing we do for treatment is to assess those risk factors and minimize them.”
“We have to get them that medicine within three hours of the onset of symptoms, which is the challenge.”
“There are good treatments options. We can make a difference.”
“Usually there's some of the brain tissue that they're not going to get back but some vulnerable brain around the stroke that is salvageable.”