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 New Standards for Prehospital Stroke Patient Destinations; the Dawn of a New Era in EMS

March 11, 2021

The destination for prehospital patients with suspected stroke has been controversial for many years. Should they be taken to the closest ED, the closest...

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Assessing the ED Stroke Patient for Disability - What Are the Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them?

December 2, 2020

The NIH Stroke Scale is beneficial when used correctly but is has its limitations. Relying entirely on the NIHSS will miss significant disability in a...

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The New Standards for Prehospital Stroke Patient Destinations; the Dawn of a New Era in EMS

March 11, 2021

The destination for prehospital patients with suspected stroke has been controversial for many years. Should they be taken to the closest ED, the closest...

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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...

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Confusion vs. Aphasia- So Important and So Challenging at Times!

March 15, 2022

Confusion isn't really a stroke symptom but aphasia clearly is. One is life threatening and the other can often be self limited and benign. Are you sure...

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

November 12, 2020

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....

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What Should All Physicians Know About Endovascular Stroke Care?

Emergency Nursing Assessments, the NIHSS and Pitfalls in Identifying Acute Stroke Patients. How Do You Do It, and Do It Well?

What Pitfalls Do Clinicians Face In Understanding Statistics In Acute Stroke Trials?

What Was Missing From the NINDS Trial?

Mobile Stroke Units - Linking Ultra Early Care and Outcomes

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