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Tasty Morsels of EM 089 – #FRCEM Stroke

28 Jul

(Featured image, Allan Ajifo on Flickr, CC license) I’m entering a few months prep for the UK and Ireland exit exam in Emergency Medicine: the FRCEM. I’ll be adding lots of little notes on pearls I’ve learned along the way. A … Read More »

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tPA for stroke debate at IAEM 2014

25 Oct

The 2014 meeting of IAEM was a great experience. For a country of 4.5 million with just over 70 emergency physicians we put on a pretty good show I think. I like to use “we” even though I had no … Read More »

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Time to treatment for stroke and problems with observational data

21 Apr

Here’s a big study suggesting earlier TPA treatment for stroke results in better outcomes. This of course isn’t a new idea but this is new data here to support it: Saver JL, Fonarow GC, Smith EE, Reeves MJ. Time to … Read More »

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Long term follow up on IST-3

16 Oct

I read this a few months back and forgot to post something on it. It’s not headline data the way IST 3 was but it’s worth knowing it’s out there. This is the long term (by which they mean 18 … Read More »

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Thrombolysis for stroke head to head in the BMJ

5 Sep

Hat tip to Domhnall for the heads up on this one. The BMJ runs a series of head to head articles where two sides of a debate are presented. They tend to be written by the main players and always … Read More »

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