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Code Stroke Alert: FAST
FAST is an acronym for Face, Arm, Speech, and Time; warning signs of a TREATABLE stroke. Modern emergency departments are set up to administer TPA, a clot busting drug, that can resolve a Facial weakness, a paralyzed ARM, or loss of SPEECH - if there is TIME. The time in most cases is just three hours, and it takes an hour to get the the emergency department and get an emergency CT scan to rule out...
November 16, 2013