Do You Know if You Have a TIA or a Stroke?

The old definition of TIA was transient symptoms lasting less than 24 hours. The AHA and ASA guidelines came up with their latest guidelines for TIA workup it's the exact same as as for um stroke so you know brain imaging with MRI and MRA had a neck or CTA echo stroke what we call stroke labs which is a fasting lipid profile that hemoglobin A1c in a TSH in a certain populations RPR and a B12 and a homocysteine but they get the exact same workup. So typically they they go to the to the CDU and stay there for 24 hours yeah that was sort of my sense when I was reading about these rapid operations