Likely TIA scenarios (lasting 5 min) • Speech disturbance – expressive • Speech disturbance – receptive • Dense hemiplegia +/- dysphasia • Unilateral upper limb paresis • Ataxia and incoordination • Incoordination • Dressing apraxia • Other apraxia • Amaurosis fugax | |
Non-stroke scenarios • Acute coronary syndrome (crushing chest pain for 20 min) • Simple vaso-vagal faint • Classical migraine with fortification spectra • GI upset with diarrhoea and vomiting • Respiratory tract infection/possible pneumonia • Dysphagia without other neurological symptoms |