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Recognising a Stroke Early: Signs That Demand Action

By Dr. Arun Oommen
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Recognising a Stroke Early: Signs That Demand Action

Stroke is a medical emergency where every minute of delay increases the risk of permanent brain damage, which is why recognising the signs quickly matters more than almost anything else in neurology.

Dr. Arun Oommen

Dr Arun Oommen is the consultant neurosurgeon at VPS Lakeshore Hospital and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India. After his super specialty training and fellowship training in Neuro endoscopy, he has worked in various super specialty centres before joining Lakeshore hospital. He is an expert in handling various neurosurgical cases and has vast surgical experience in areas like Neuro Oncology, Neuro Trauma and Neuro critical care, Neuro Navigation, Steriotaxic Neurosurgery, Neuro endoscopy, and spine problems including Spine instrumentation. He is the editor cum advisor of Medcrave online journal of Neurology and stroke. He is also the editor of the Open access journal of neurology and Neurosurgery .