The 'golden hour' treatment of acute ischemic stroke.

Arshad Iqbal, MD  DAtA on the IncIDence of stroke, collected by the American Heart Association, indicate that in the United States there is a stroke about every 40 seconds and a person dies of stroke about every four minutes. At the moment, there are three to four million Americans who are stroke survivors. Each year, there are roughly 795,000 new strokes in the United States. The death rate is approximately 30% of all stroke victims.