Table of Contents:
  • Development of knowledge about cerebrovascular disease
  • Is it a vascular event and where is the lesion?
  • Which arterial territory is involved?
  • What pathological type of stroke is it, cerebral ischaemeic of haemorrhage?
  • What caused this transient or persisting ischaemic event?
  • Unusual causes of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack
  • What caused this intracerebral haemorrhage?
  • What caused this subarachnoid haemorrhage?
  • A practical approach to the management of stroke and transien ischaemic attack patients
  • What are this person's problems? a problem-based approach to the general management of stroke
  • Specific treatments for acute ischaemic stroke
  • Specific treatment of intracerebral haemorrhage
  • Specific treatment of aneurismal subarachonoid haemorrhage
  • Specific interventions to prevent intracranial haemorrhage
  • Preventing recurrent stroke and other serious vascular events
  • The organization of stroke services
  • Reducing the impact of stroke and improving the public health.