The always excellent Emergency Medicine Literature of Note had a great post on stroke mimics and what happens when they get tPA. It was a study trying to say that only 1.4% of their tPA patients were stroke mimics but … Read More »
Only a quickie this time. I mentioned in the first part that I wasn’t planning to discuss the details of the MAST trials as they used streptokinase as the agent and this is no longer used. In short both trials … Read More »
This is part 2 of a series of posts considering the evidence for thrombolytics in stroke. Part one can be found here SITS-ISTR and SITS-MOST You may have seen these two trials. The most important thing to be said about … Read More »
I’ve presented on this a couple of times but this is gonna require a few parts, so be patient with me. This is not quite a deep-dive in the SMART EM sense, more of a shallow dive you might do … Read More »