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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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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What Lessons Have You Learned About Endovascular Therapy in COVID Patients and What Should We All Know?

December 2, 2020

Acute interventional management during the COVID pandemic requires a change of focus and practice. Challenges abound and danger exists at every decision...

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Controversies in Prehospital Medicine: Choosing the Destination Medical Center for Stroke Patients

December 2, 2020

Once a stroke is suspected in the field, it stands to reason that the destination matters for the patient. But how much does it matter and where should...

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When Might You Use Heparin in the NeuroICU for a Stroke Patient?

December 2, 2020

Heparin in stroke remains controversial. Understanding the history and data and essential to mastering stroke care.

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Are the NNT and NNH for tPA Useful or Misleading in Acute Stroke Care?

December 2, 2020

Stroke treatment data are hard to interpret and can be misleading. A lot of misinformation has made its way into the literature and has confounded acute...

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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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