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The expanded mnemonic BE-FAST (Balance, Eyes, Face, Arm, Speech, Time) was introduced to reduce the number of strokes missed by the original FAST criteria, particularly those presenting with balance or visual symptoms.^[1]

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Please change the image of the brain with the original one (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MCA-Stroke-Brain-Human-1.JPG). The one in the article is somewhat digitally altered (there are minor parts of the brain no in the original version) and IMHO we should stick to the primary sources. ~2025-42438-27 (talk) 00:51, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. NuggestNugtalk to me!contribs logsthey
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I recently added a sentence to the "Hemorrhagic stroke" section of this article, following the existing paragraph on supportive care for intracerebral hemorrhage.

The addition notes that bundled implementation of standard supportive measures (blood pressure control, glucose and temperature management, and anticoagulation reversal) has been shown to improve functional outcomes both in randomised trials and in real-world data.

References used: the INTERACT3 randomised trial (Ma et al., The Lancet, 2023, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00806-1) and a population-based study from Catalonia, Spain (Lambea-Gil et al., Neurology, 2025, doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000214176).

Conflict of interest disclosure: I am a co-author of the Lambea-Gil et al. 2025 reference. The other reference (INTERACT3) is an independent randomised trial. I have no financial interest in this topic.

~~~~ Alambea (talk) 16:50, 12 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]