 Hello everyone, I am Dr.Santosh Patil, I am consultant in neurovascular intervention radiologist working at Manipar Hospital, Skharadi. Today we will know about brain stroke. So what is brain stroke? So we all know about cardiac attack or heart attack. Brain stroke is something similar, we call it as brain attack. Why does it happen? It can happen because of two reasons. One, we call it as ischemic stroke where the blood vessels supplying the brain, they get blocked because of formation of clot inside them. The other one is hemorrhagic stroke where the blood vessels supplying the brain can burst open and form bleeding inside the brain. So how do we come to know that a person is suffering from brain stroke? So we have formed a very simple mnemonic which is easy to remember. We call it as B-fast. The first letter in this mnemonic is B that means if there is a loss of balance or a person is suffering from headache or dizziness. E stands for eye, if there is loss of vision or the vision is impaired, the next letter is F, if the face is drooping to one side. The next letter is A, if you have weakness in the arms or the legs, if there is tingling sensation in the arms and legs, the next letter is S where there is impaired speech or you are finding it difficult to speak. So these are all the symptoms or signs of stroke. The next letter in the mnemonic is T which stands for time. It signifies that time is very important in stroke. If you are suffering from all these signs, you have to reach to a stroke-ready hospital as early as possible. Remember time is brain, so each minute of stroke about 20 lakh cells of brain die and we cannot recover them. So it is very important that you reach to a stroke-ready hospital as early as possible. A stroke-ready hospital can provide you treatments such as IV thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy wherein we can take out the blocks inside the blood vessels of the brain. So these treatments are very modern treatments are available in very few institutions and they can give you a good recovery from stroke. So how can we prevent stroke? There are different ways how we can modify our risk factors of stroke. Number one is you have to maintain your blood pressure and blood sugars. You have to have a tight control of your blood sugars as well as blood pressure by having regular medicines for these elements and you can have a proper follow-up with your physician. Apart from that, you have to follow a proper healthy lifestyle wherein you can do moderate exercises, follow a healthy diet where you can have more intake of green leafy vegetables and fruits and avoid junk foods. You also have to avoid smoking or any form of tobacco intake. So all these things can help you greatly in reducing your risk of getting stroke. Thank you.