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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MRI In Acute Stroke: Promises and Pitfalls

Haemin Go posted on 4/12/2022


Moderator: William A. Knight IV, MD, FACEP, FNCS
Other Participants: Robert Stanton, MD

When caring for acute stroke patients, who hasn't wished for an MRI at times? The future of MRI in acute stroke care remains unclear, but more and more research demonstrates that it can be incorporated into care paradigms to enhance safety and identify patients who might benefit from treatment despite unknown last known well times and complicated exams. Despite the benefit of MRI, pitfalls abound. Listen to Dr. Stanton share his expertise and thoughts about the future of MRI in acute stroke care and discuss the elusive "MRI-negative" acute stroke!


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