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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Apr 26

Difficult Strokes to Identify: Tricks and Tips From the Frontline

Haemin Go posted on 4/26/2021

Moderator: Jordan Bonomo, MD, FCCM, FNCS
Other Participants: Stacie L. Demel, DO, PhD

Difficult stroke syndromes challenge even the best of stroke clinicains. This in depth discussion with Dr. Stacie Demel from the University of Cincinnati takes us through the thinking of a national expert as she walks us through the tips and tricks she uses to not miss strokes that can be devastating. Dysphasia testing in the ED, walking all patients and finding the patients with "dizzy plus" are the focus of this informative discussion with Dr. Demel. Even the thalamus and thalamic strokes make an appearance in this podcast as does the complex assessent of neglect and how to teach ourselves to do a better neurologic exam.

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