Nhlbi.nih.gov, 2015, What Is a Stroke? - NHLBI, NIH, [online] Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/stroke, [Accessed 4 Sep. 2015]
The National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute website is aimed on the prevention and treatment of heart, lung and blood disease. The NHLBI provides worldwide leadership for a research, training, and education programs. They aim to enhance the health individuals around the world, hoping for the outcome of a healthy fulfilled life. The section on strokes the NHLBI website has provided readers with, offers a detailed overview of the two main types of strokes, other (medical terminology) names, who is at risk, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, life after, clinical …show more content…
It was written by Isabel Beresford, Andrew Parsons and Jacqueline HunStroke in 2005, it describes the different treatment options available for strokes, it particularly reviews treatments aimed at “acutely improving blood flow or protecting the brain tissue against ischaemia and enhancing stroke recovery or reducing the risk of stroke recurrence” (Beresford, Parsons and Hunter, 2003). The article than goes onto talk about the background of stokes and their links to medically related deaths in developed countries, the medical needs of a stroke, the existing treatments such as acute therapy, management of stroke recovery, stroke preventions, post stroke neuroregeneration, current research goals and different approaches such as drugs to improves blood flow, etc. This article is very suitable for readers who wish to learn more about the treatment options for strokes. This journal article will be very helpful for future assessments as it is from a scholarly source and provides information in easy to read …show more content…
On the John Hopkins website a section called the health explains the effects of stroke. It describes the effects of a stroke, and states that they will vary from person to person as characteristics such as type, location, age, severity, number of previous strokes etc, are different in each person. As the brain is divided into three main areas, the content is broken down into sections explaining the effects to each section such as, what effects can be seen with a stroke in the cerebrum, the effects of a right hemisphere stroke in the cerebrum etc. This text is obliging to someone who wishes to learn about the effects of a stroke in greater detail relating to the brain, in all this text will be very useful for future assignments as it explains, concentrating on the brain, the effects one will