Ataxia and Dystaxia: How To Examine and Discuss These Disabling Symptoms With Your Patients

March 29, 2022

Ataxia and dystaxia are often missed clinically. But they're important and potentially disabling. Listen to this podcast to learn more and help you identify these high-risk patients.

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Posterior Circulation Horror Stories: How To Save the Day and Your Patient

March 22, 2022

Posterior circulation strokes are often devastating. The diagnostics are different and the treatments are evolving. If you care for stroke patients, this podcast is a must.

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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 your neurological exam is up to the task?

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Pitfalls in CTP: Why CTP Isn’t Always the Holy Grail in Acute Stroke Imaging

March 8, 2022

CTP is alluring in acute stroke and continues to become more available. But it's complicated. Learn the pitfalls and traps from a true expert in perfusion imaging.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the NIHSS: Time for a Change?

August 31, 2021

The NIHSS remains the fundamental assessment of stroke severity. However, some have called for modifying the NIHSS to better capture disability. Is it time...

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What Else Beyond the NIHSS Should We Be Doing Clinically?

August 24, 2021

The NIHSS was a research tool meant to limit variability and provide uniform quantifiable assessments of stroke severity. As the de facto...

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The Clock Is Dead - The Reign of Tissue Imaging

August 17, 2021

Mismatch is your friend if you want to treat acute stroke patients beyond 3 hrs. While the clock was once the king, tissue imaging may now define what brain...

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Defining the SOC - Is 4.5 Hrs the Real Answer?

August 10, 2021

The standard of care can feel elusive. Listen here as Dr. Knight shares his expertise regarding the definition of the SOC in extended window therapy for...

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How Do I Identify Patients at Risk for a Secondary Event Following an Initial Acute Ischemic Stroke?

August 3, 2021

Identification of patients at high risk for secondary ischemic event, after initial event or post TIA...is minimal tissue damage really that big of a deal...

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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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Ataxia and Dystaxia: How To Examine and Discuss These Disabling Symptoms With Your Patients

Posterior Circulation Horror Stories: How To Save the Day and Your Patient

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

Pitfalls in CTP: Why CTP Isn’t Always the Holy Grail in Acute Stroke Imaging

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