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...There are three critical junctures at which you can get a sense of someone's prognosis after a stroke - within the first hour, within the first day or two, and within the first week. This is when the extent of the damage from a stroke starts to become apparent. It is also the time when there is the greatest risk of a second, even more severe stroke...
...Word that Kennedy may have suffered one or possibly two seizures does not necessarily mean that he did not have a stroke. Seizures sometimes occur immediately after a stroke. Even people who have recovered from a stroke are more likely than folks who have never had a stroke to experience a seizure at some point in the following year...
...other hand, living past the age of 60 also increases your chances of suffering a seizure that may or may not be related to a stroke. Seizures in older adults sometimes occur as a reaction to medication, to alcohol withdrawal or because of problems with the blood supply in the brain that hasn't yet risen to the level of a stroke...
...event, given Senator Kennedy's medical history, it made sense to examine him more closely for signs of stroke. If the doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston - where Kennedy was airlifted from the Cape Cod hospital where he was first taken - can rule out a stroke, then they will begin looking for other possible causes for his seizures...
...time you suspect a stroke, as Sen. Kennedy or someone near him must have, speed is important, and the symptoms to look for can be best remembered with the acronym FAST - for face, arms, speech and time...