Recognizing early symptoms of stroke

  World Stroke Day is celebrated on June 24. This year’s theme is “Let’s get people to identify early symptoms and who is at risk of stroke”. The latest international statistics show that there is one new stroke every 12 seconds and one stroke death every 21 seconds. Stroke is also known as stroke, or cerebrovascular disease, and is broadly divided into ischemic stroke (transient ischemic attack, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism) and hemorrhagic stroke (hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage). Stroke is a global pandemic and has become the number one threat to human health.  Stroke can be prevented by knowing the early symptoms of stroke and stroke prone population. Patients with smoking, alcoholism, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes mellitus should be classified as stroke prone; people with high age, male, yellow race, cold environment and genetic family history have relatively high incidence of stroke and should also be considered as stroke prone. A reasonable diet, moderate exercise, psychological balance, and abstinence from smoking and alcohol are effective ways to prevent stroke. Effective secondary prevention measures must be implemented for people who already have certain high-risk characteristics for stroke.  For example, it is important to have regular health checkups to see if your blood pressure is normal, if you have heart disease or diabetes, if your blood lipids and weight are abnormal, and if you have a family history of smoking to determine if you are at high risk. Intensive health education should be implemented for high-risk subjects so that the levels of risk factors can be reduced. For those with abnormal blood pressure, regular treatment must be implemented to bring the blood pressure down to a safer normal range. In addition, it is important to strengthen mental health counseling for at-risk patients to help them control their emotional and stressful state, encourage them to participate in useful community activities and organize their work and life in a reasonable way, which will help reduce the risk of stroke.  Ultra-early treatment” for stroke is good. Time is of the essence in ischemic stroke. Timely and effective ischemia-reperfusion and cerebral protection within the 6-hour treatment window is now considered to be ultra-early treatment. Early and effective perfusion prevents recurrence and complications, maximizes neurological recovery, and improves the patient’s prognosis.  Five major warning signs are common in the early stages of stroke: (1) Weakness and numbness or paralysis on one or both sides of the body, in the upper and lower extremities or in the face.  (2). Sudden blurring of vision in one or both eyes, or loss of vision, or seeing in pairs.  (3) Difficulty in verbal expression or comprehension.  (4) Dizziness and loss of balance or any accidental fall or unsteady gait.  (5) Headache (usually severe and sudden) or unexpected change in headache pattern. The presence of the above symptoms should be treated as a medical emergency, as should severe chest pain and sudden severe headache.  The cerebrovascular system has established standardized diagnosis and treatment measures for stroke We established a green channel for emergency cerebrovascular disease interventional diagnosis and treatment for rescue treatment in 2002. According to the staging and staging of cerebrovascular disease, we carry out techniques such as combined arteriovenous thrombolysis and stenosis angioplasty for ischemic stroke, and carry out techniques such as intravascular embolization of intracranial aneurysm and minimally invasive removal of intracranial hematoma for hemorrhagic stroke, and established a In 2007, we established a special cerebrovascular ward, and have made many attempts and efforts in the rescue and treatment mode and efficient operation mechanism of cerebrovascular diseases.  We have explored the establishment of standardized stroke assessment and treatment measures, risk assessment and target control of stroke, combined acute/rehabilitation stroke unit, and standardized and individualized stroke treatment: different treatment methods are adopted according to the time window of consultation, degree of disease, comorbidity, underlying causes, age and other factors, which gradually rationalize stroke medical treatment and effectively improve the survival rate, reduce the disability rate and speed up the rehabilitation of patients. This has effectively improved the survival rate, reduced the disability rate, accelerated the recovery rate, improved the quality of life of patients and reduced medical costs.