Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Reeser Room podcast.

I'm Simon Lang.

I'm Rob Penwick.

And I'm still James Yates.

And we're back with the second half of stroke. And this

time the really important part and sometimes difficult to get your head around part of stroke

management. Yes indeed. So we've gone over how we're actually going to identify that on the previous

podcast. So identify these patients who are at risk or potentially having a stroke or TIA.

And now it's on to the bit that really matters, I guess, is what are we actually going to do

for them.

So before we get into it, a big thanks to our partners, S.J. Trem, the Scandinavian Journal of

Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine.

They are a free, open access, online journal that cover all the sorts of articles that we

cover here in the podcast. So go over and have a look on the hyperlink on our website to the

fantastic articles that they're publishing. So without further ado, let's get on with the podcast.

So just to recap, our previous podcast we talked about identification of stroke and the fact that a really good history and examination and set of investigations is going to get us to a point where hopefully we've dismissed the differentials of these stroke mimics and we've got to a point of being convinced that the patient in front of us has got a stroke.

But there is that unnerving fact that we don't have a test that's necessarily going to confirm that fact 100%.

Now, the really exciting thing about stroke management is that it has really evolved over the last few decades.

And it isn't much of a stretch of the imagination to remember back in the day when those patients that presented with a stroke were essentially put on to a ward, had some imaging, had a confirmed stroke a few days down the line, and then started

to get their aspirin and started to get their rehab. But delighted to say that the management

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