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 You Operationalize the Use of the ASPECTS Score and Is It the Poor Man’s CTP?

Haemin Go posted on 4/5/2022


Moderator: William A. Knight IV, MD, FACEP, FNCS
Other Participants: Matthew Stedman Smith, MD

Perhaps the ASPECTS is the GCS of stroke? An efficient way to communicate the health of tissue and the potential for endovascular therapy, ASPECTS is the common language of stroke physicians and endovascular proceduralists. Learning what the ASPECTS means, the information that it conveys, and it's limitations is a priority for clinicians caring for acute stroke patients.


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