COVID-19 and hemorrhagic stroke are a deadly combination, increasing the risk of death up to 2.4 times among patients who have this pairing compared to those who only had hemorrhagic strokes, ...

2404 ambulance-assessed patients with suspected acute stroke causing a motor deficit within two hours of onset and elevated systolic blood pressure (≥150mmHg) were randomly assigned to immediate ...

Most stroke patients don’t need CPR, but if the person is unconscious and not breathing, start CPR immediately after calling 911. The dispatcher can guide you through chest compressions if needed.

One study found that, of nearly 40,000 patients who received a surgery to treat ischemic stroke from 2012 to 2017, close to half required inter-hospital transfer.

CHI St. Alexius Dickinson earns American Heart Association’s Rural Stroke Gold Achievement Award, recognizing the hospital’s excellence in treating strokes across southwest North Dakota.

Prehospital reduction of blood pressure was associated with a decrease in the odds of a poor functional outcome among patients with hemorrhagic stroke (common OR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.60-0.92) but an ...

51 to 65% of people die within the first year, many within the first few days. Six months after a hemorrhagic stroke, only 20% of patients are expected to be independent. - That's the clot in the ...

Researchers identified 8,991 patients (53.5% men; mean age, 70.7 years) with a first intracerebral hemorrhage in the Danish Stroke Registry from Jan. 1, 2005, to June 30, 2018, who were aged 45 ...

Key takeaways: Apixaban and aspirin offered comparable protection against major ischemic or hemorrhagic event for those with cancer history and cryptogenic stroke. More research is needed to ...

In patients with SCD, cerebral infarction has been reported to be the most common cause of stroke in the first two decades of life and from the fourth decade onwards, whereas hemorrhagic stroke ...