All right, so this podcast is going to be on stroke. I have a few

pneumonics in there to help you remember the things you need to know for your

exam and of course I'll try to keep it as brief as I can just to focus on the

things you really need to know for your exam questions. As always, thank you so much for all of the really nice comments.

I truly do appreciate that.

So thank you for that.

Let's go ahead and get started with stroke.

We'll start with our TIA, our transient ischemic attack.

Keep this part brief. There's not a lot of high-yield stuff from TIA,

just a few things that you need to know of.

So first, what is it?

So TIA is a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by focal brain spinal cord or retinal

eschemia without acute infarction. That's the official definition from the

American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.

So a TIA, it's a clinical diagnosis.

It's often not the easiest diagnosis to make because the presentation can be highly variable.

There's many differentials to consider and often by the time the patient presents to you,

their symptoms are already gone, but essentially a TIA looks exactly like a stroke and presentation,

but the symptoms resolve, they get better.

That's the key.

There's no tissue infar key. There's no tissue

injury. So to put a really simply, TIA, there's a clot in a vessel,

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