Stroke

The advice in the NICE guideline covers: how healthcare professionals should recognise the symptoms of a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and make a diagnosis quickly when people should have a brain scan and other types of scan specialist care for people in the first 2 weeks after ...

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The advice in the NICE guideline covers:

• how healthcare professionals should recognise the symptoms of a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and make a diagnosis quickly
• when people should have a brain scan and other types of scan
• specialist care for people in the first 2 weeks after a stroke
• drug treatments for people who have had a stroke
• surgery for people who have had a stroke.

Responsibility for undertaking a review of this guidance at the designated review date has passed to the National Clinical Guidelines Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions (NCGC-ACC) The National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions is no longer active.

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