What Should All Physicians Know About Endovascular Stroke Care?

December 4, 2020
Endovascular stroke care is the criterion standard for LVO treatment, yet not everyone is fluent with data and techniques.  
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Emergency Nursing Assessments, the NIHSS and Pitfalls in Identifying Acute Stroke Patients. How Do You Do It, and Do It Well?

December 4, 2020
Nurses in the emergency setting are the key to stroke patient progression. From first point of assessment and triage, ED nurses set the standard. 
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What Pitfalls Do Clinicians Face In Understanding Statistics In Acute Stroke Trials?

December 4, 2020
Statistics can illuminate or obfuscate. Clinicians need to understand acute stroke trial data and statistics in meaningful ways, but challenges abound.
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What Was Missing From the NINDS Trial?

December 4, 2020
The NINDS trial was the seminal study of IV-tPA in the treatment of acute stroke. Yet controversy still exists around the trial methodology and the interpretation of the data. Was anything missing from NINDS? Does it still resonate nearly 25 years later?
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Mobile Stroke Units - Linking Ultra Early Care and Outcomes

December 2, 2020
Imagine a mobile stroke unit, with a CT scanner, arriving to care for stroke patients at the first point of medical contact. What are the possibilities and what are the data?
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How Do I Identify Patients at Risk for a Secondary Event Following an Initial Acute Ischemic Stroke?

Haemin Go posted on 8/3/2021

Moderator:W. Brian Gibler, MD FACEP, FACC, FAHA
Other Participants: Jordan Bonomo, MD, FCCM, FNCS and Galen V. Henderson, MD

Ascertaining and determining which patients are at a high enough risk to do something more than admission to the hospital, and who are low enough risk to play outpatient game of roulette and real challenges faced by clinicians. Drs. Henderson and Bonomo provide unique perspectives into the identification of these patients, and what needs to be done.

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