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🚑🚁🩺💉 Strokes EMTs must RECOGNIZE 👁️
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In today’s training we talked about the
🧠 ISCHEMIC STROKE
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This is when a blood clot forms in one of the Arteries in the Brain causing a lack of blood supply - and therefore a lack of oxygen - to get to a part of the brain
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The most common type of stroke - is the ISCHEMIC STROKE - 87% of strokes are Ischemic Strokes.
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They are formed by what’s referred to as THROMBOSIS - and if a patient had a STROKE then what’s going on is they have a blood clot that forms as a blockage inside one of the arteries in their brain.
An EMBOLUS is where a blood clot has formed somewhere else in the body, and a piece of it breaks off, travels, and then lodges via circulation getting stuck at the THROMBUS site in the brain.
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This is the most common type of stroke and it’s called an ISCHEMIC STROKE / where a blood clot inhibits the blood supply getting through the vessel to a part of the brain.
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The ARTERY is physically blocked
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👀 Here’s some info to help you identify a stroke
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Facial DROOP 🥀
Arms 🙆♀️ / the patient’s one arm “drifts” down
Speech : SLURRED / but they havn’t been drinking!🍻
💡🤔 think : how long?
TIME : Has this been going on more than [<] 6 hours or did the patient wake up with the symptoms?
👁️EYES : is the patient tracking you with their gaze, or is their gaze fixed to one side or the other?
🗣️when they SPEAK to you : can they identify objects and use the correct words, or is their speaking “not normal”
🙅♀️🙅♂️💪🙌 NEGLECT to one side of the body : is one side of the patient’s body “limp” - or lacking sensation upon touch?
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If you find someone with an inability to communicate, impairment on ONE SIDE of the body, but not the other, and an Altered Mental Status, from “acting not normal” to seizures to unconsciousness - call an ambulance 🚨🚑
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