Background: Dealing with a patient in status epilepticus, refractory to treatment with benzodiazepines, can be a sphincter tightening ordeal. While most seizure activity responds to appropriately dosed benzodiazipines, some will not respond. The choice of second line medication has been ...
Take Home Points Important as front line providers to know research and data behind stroke care Patients eligible for endovascular care are those with large vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation – anterior cerebral artery, middle cerebral artery, distal intracranial ...
Background: Currently, alteplase is the mainstay of treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Advocates of alteplase suggest that the benefit of alteplase is greatest when given early and declines with increasing time from stroke symptom onset (i.e. time is brain). Therefore, the ...
Background: Migraine is a chronic neurologic disease characterized by attacks of throbbing, often unilateral headache that are exacerbated by physical activity and associated with photophobia, phonophobia, nausea, vomiting, and, in many patients, cutaneous allodynia. Migraine is very common, and the burden ...
Background: Despite the lack of replication of the NINDS & ECASS-3 trials, guidelines recommend the use of tPA in the ≤4.5hr window after the onset of symptoms of acute ischemic stroke . These recommendations used non-contrast computed tomography (NCHCT) for the ...
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