{"id":215193,"date":"2024-06-10T12:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=215193"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T16:04:18","slug":"podcast-befast-to-save-brain-from-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/podcast-befast-to-save-brain-from-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: BEFAST to Save Brain From Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mantra &#8220;BEFAST&#8221; continues to be a primary education and awareness tool when it comes to recognizing and reacting to stroke.<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><blockquote>\n  <p><\/span>The reason why it\u2019s so important to call 911 and have EMS there is not only do they recognize the symptoms as whether or not it\u2019s a stroke, but also they will call ahead inform the ER nurse, the triage nurse, to activate a stroke alert, as we call it.<span class=\"cf0\"> <cite> &#8212 Dr. Priya Narwal<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p>In the latest <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Narwal-Priya\">Dr. Priya Narwal<\/a>, interim medical director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/stroke-center\/\">UConn Health\u2019s Stroke Center<\/a>, Brooke Medel, stroke nurse navigator, and nurse Kristen Bryant, interim stroke coordinator, explain what goes into providing not only acute care during the medical emergency, but also the longer-term care and support that comes with recovery and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YAFVrVWXbc\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/befast-to-save-brain-from-stroke\">BEFAST to Save Brain From Stroke<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;BEFAST to Save Brain From Stroke&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/befast-to-save-brain-from-stroke\/embed#?secret=CZpM22ss0n#?secret=YAFVrVWXbc\" data-secret=\"YAFVrVWXbc\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 experts from UConn Health&#8217;s Stroke Center on recognizing, reacting to, treating, and recovering from stroke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2288,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-215193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-neurology","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 05:32:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215196,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193\/revisions\/215196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215193"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=215193"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=215193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}