1. EMS: first line of defense against stroke Denise Lemke and Michel T. Torbey 2. Initial assessment of patients with stroke-like symptoms Rafael H. Llinas 3. Clinical stroke syndromes and localization Sean I. Salvitz 4. The hunt for a stroke etiology: ischemic stroke Thomas J. Wolfe and Osama O. Zaidat 5. Hemorrhagic stroke: the hunt for a stroke etiology Angelos Katramados and Panayiotis Varelas 6. Uncommon causes of stroke Andrew W. Tarulli 7. Computed tomography in acute stroke Sanjay K. Shetty and Michael H. Lev 8. Magnetic resonance imaging in acute stroke Magdy Selim 9. Neurosonology in acute ischemic stroke Vijay Sharma, Annabella Lao and Andrei V. Alexandrov 10. Ischemic stroke in the first 24 hours Magdy Selim 11. Ischemic stroke beyond the first 24 hours Eric Bershad and Jose I. Suarez 12. Intracerebral hemorrhage Katja Elfriede Wartenberg and Stephan A. Mayer 13. Subarachnoid hemorrhage Katja Elfriede Wartenberg and Stephan A. Mayer 14. Dural and cerebral sinus thrombosis James S. Castle and Romergryko G. Geocadin 15. Perioperative stroke Viktor Szeder, Magdy Selim and Michel T. Torbey 16. Stroke on OB/Gyn wards Ann K. Helms 17. Stroke on pediatric wards Marta Lopez Vincente, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez and Michel Torbey 18. Antithrombotic therapies Mark Alberts 19. Surgical and endovascular therapies Nazli Janjua and Adnan Qureshi 20. Stroke risk factors: impact and management Laura Pedelty and Philip B. Gorelick.
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