Items Tagged ‘stroke center’
May 16, 2014
#StrokeMonth: From Victim to Therapist
It’s been almost three years since Sean Bretz collapsed. Unbeknownst to the then 23-year-old U.S. Coast Guardsman, a giant aneurysm had burst in his brain, causing a massive stroke. “His prognosis was grim,” neurosurgeon Rabih Tawk, M.D., recalls. “We used every technology available to help him.” Despite complications and issues, which required him to be induced into […]
Tags: Aneurysm, bretz, Dr. Rabih Tawk, Rehabilitation, Sean Bretz, stroke, stroke center, therapy
May 9, 2014
#StrokeMonth: It’s a Numbers Game
Written by Lesia Mooney, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mayo Clinic’s Advanced Primary Stroke Center in Florida. 795,000. That’s the number of people annually in the United States who have a stroke. 130,000. That’s the number of Americans who die each year due to stroke. $36.5 billion. That’s the cost of stroke annually, which includes the cost of health care […]
Tags: American Stroke Association, High Blood Pressure, high cholesterol, Lesia Mooney, MayoClinicFL, stroke, stroke center, strokemonth
May 18, 2009
Stroke Awareness: Do you know the signs?
By CSMMayo 
Despite the fact that I have been a Mayo Clinic employee for almost 19 years, and have worked for over five of those years with our comprehensive Stroke Center, I was shocked to find out that I didn’t know all the signs and symptoms of stroke! It’s not just slurred speech or drooping of the […]
Tags: Florida, Jacksonville, stroke, stroke center, stroke symptoms, stroke team