Current approach to acute stroke management

There have been marked improvements in the management of stroke Australia over past two decades. The greatest benefit has accrued from public health measures including reduced smoking rates and treatment hypertension hypercholesterolaemia. Recent advances recanalisation therapy offer chance recovery to a subset people who stroke. For many patients, remains an illness with devastating impact on their quality life. Reducing burden requires intervention across system primary prevention through diagnosis, acute treatment, rehabilitation secondary prevention. In this review, we will cover changes epidemiology stroke, ischaemic intracerebral haemorrhage.