When Lightning Strikes: An Illustrated Guide to Stroke Prevention and Recovery

"As public awareness and understanding of stroke grows, there is a continuing need for people to have access to reliable information about stroke, and this book fits the bill."-The Lancet Neurology

"This book represents one of the few available which presents authoritative, up-to-date, reliable information about stroke which can be easily understood and put into practice by the general public and by health care providers . . . I strongly recommend it."-Professor David Wiebers (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota)

Endorsed by the World Stroke Federation, this book provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview of all the issues related to stroke-what a stroke is, prevention, managing your own risks, principles of acute stroke management, stroke outcomes, and post-stroke and long-term care and management.

Using simple and unambiguous language throughout, When Lightning Strikes includes step-by-step, easy-to-follow illustrations, case reports, and appendices, supplemented with a generous glossary.

Professor Valery Feigin, MD, MSc, PhD is currently neurologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. He has wrtten over 150 scientific articles on various aspects of stroke, including contributions to a WHO handbook. He has worked at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, and in the University Department of Neurology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.