 I am Paritosh Pandit. I am a consultant neurosurgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, both at Old Airport Road and at Whitefield. My specialization is cerebrovascular neurosurgery and endovascular neurosurgery. Stroke is the communist emergency of our times and it is responsible for majority of the deaths and disability in normal population. The risk factors of strokes are usual. They are diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, smoking. There are two kinds of strokes. One is hemorrhagic stroke in which there is bleeding in the brain, another is ischemic stroke in which there is blockage of one of the blood vessels of the brain. Stroke can be identified as the acronym FAST, which means face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty and T is time which means that you need to rush to the hospital if you have any of these symptoms. In hemorrhagic stroke it is probably because of either hypertension or due to aneurysm or AVMs which can be treated by either open surgery or by endovascular neurosurgery where we go through the groin and put coils in the AVMs or the aneurysms. In the ischemic stroke if there is a small stroke we can give clot custard medicines or if there is blockage of major artery we do something called mechanical thrombectomy in which we suck out the clot thereby giving good outcome to the patients. Anipal hospital has comprehensive stroke care unit including neurology, neuro radiology, neuro imaging and neuro interventional surgery. So if you have any of these symptoms they rush to the nearest hospital or contact us so that you can be treated as soon as possible and have the best outcome possible. Thank you.