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Stroke, emergency care

Key points about treatments

There are two types of treatment for a stroke:

Emergency treatment, which you get in the first few hours or days after a stroke
Long-term treatment, which you are given to try to reduce the chance of having another stroke.

This information was last updated on Sep 01, 2008

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