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Rapid stroke diagnosis enables timely emergency interventions to restore perfusion and reduce early recurrence.
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Stroke is increasingly common and often fatal or disabling. 1 The absence of a definitive diagnostic test for stroke and the potential for emergency interventions to restore brain perfusion, 2 improve survival free of handicap, and minimise early recurrent stroke 3 mean that doctors need to be able to diagnose acute stroke rapidly and accurately.
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Hankey et al. (2015) studied this question. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of acute stroke is essential to enable emergency interventions that restore brain perfusion and minimize early recurrence.
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