Chapter 14

Lecture Notes

The symptoms of stroke, which often come on suddenly and usually occur on one side of the body compared to another, could be numbness of the face, arm or leg; confusion; the person might have some trouble speaking; they also might have trouble seeing with their vision; trouble walking or dizziness; and a severe headache, again, one that comes on suddenly without any warning or without a known cause. And as you can see in the graphic in this page, it's important to recognize the signs of a stroke quickly and then get to emergency help as fast as possible, because the longer someone with a stroke goes without treatment, the worse the damage to the brain.