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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The Future of Mobile Stroke Units – The Frontier is Here…

Brian Gibler posted on 11/12/2020

Moderator: Jordan Bonomo, MD, FCCM, FNCS
Other Participants: Christopher T. Richards, MD, MS, FAEMS, FACEP

In today’s technology-savvy world, we have come to expect getting goods and services delivered on demand and on our terms. We want things right away. The concept of having to wait for something is somewhat frowned upon.

Imagine a world in which healthcare can be delivered directly to the patient at point of contact, a patient can be screened clinically for a stroke, scanned, make an appropriate decision, and initiate fibrinolytic therapy at curbside. Pretty amazing? Listen in on the conversation between Drs. Jordan Bonomo and Christopher Richards regarding mobile stroke units, and how they are transforming the quality of stroke care.

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