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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Endovascular Strategies for Acute Strokes in the Era of COVID - What Changes?

Brian Gibler posted on 11/30/2020

 

COVID-19 patients with acute strokes present unique management challenges; listen to the lead author of a manuscript about endovascular standards of care in COVID stroke discuss strategies and techniques for neurointervention in COVID.

Dr. Matthew Smith, a fellow in neurocritical care and endovascular neurointervention presents key strategies for the management of acute stroke patients needing endovascular treatment in the era of COVID. Patient selection, procedural considerations and post procedure care are presented in an approachable and data-driven presentation that will help enhance the care of these uniquepatients.

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