What is Acute Stroke? Acute stroke occurs when blood flow stops into the brain. An acute brain stroke is also known as brain attack, this stroke starts suddenly and get worse when not treated immediately. A TIA (transient ischemic attack) stroke usually occurs before the acute ischemic stroke as warning sign, while TIA has no long-lasting effect, but one should take prevention to stop further strokes or a major stroke like acute stroke to happen. Our brain cells are very sensitive they require a constant supply of oxygen rich blood to them, when the blood supply gets interrupted due to any blockage or ruptured blood vessels it results in death of large number of brain cells which lead to permanent damage to the brain as our brain can’t regenerate the damaged blood cells. An acute brain stroke damages the brain causing physical injury to the brain. There are three major types of acute brain stroke • Ischemic brain stroke: narrowing of blood vessels into the brain is one of the ...