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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by Someone on Saturday March 31, 2018 @06:14PM (#16725441)
One of the challenges in first aid treatment for stroke is “is it ischemic or hemorrhagic?”. The symptoms are similar, but the treatments almost the reverse of each other. Do you want to increase clotting to stop the bleeding, or decrease clotting to keep an existing brain clot small?

Sometimes (for example if it would take hours to bring the patient to a MRI/CT machine) an educated guess as to the answer is the optimal strategy.

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Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a to... by acjohnson55 on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:17PM (#16725927)
Wow, that's really good info. So I guess the answer is get to a hospital asap where they can do some imaging.
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