EM@3AM: Brainstem Strokes
EMDocs
MAY 11, 2024
Answer : Brainstem stroke specifically in the pons resulting in locked in syndrome. CT head without contrast 1 is performed and reveals the following: Question: What is the diagnosis?
EMDocs
MAY 11, 2024
Answer : Brainstem stroke specifically in the pons resulting in locked in syndrome. CT head without contrast 1 is performed and reveals the following: Question: What is the diagnosis?
EMDocs
JANUARY 29, 2024
This article will discuss blood pressure goals and preferred pharmacotherapy for non-traumatic ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. Ischemic Strokes: Ischemic stroke is characterized by a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain. The BP targets for patients with ischemic strokes depend on the available therapeutic options.
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EMDocs
OCTOBER 21, 2023
Answer : Basilar Artery Occlusion Epidemiology: Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is a subset of the posterior circulation strokes. Posterior circulation strokes are estimated to account for 20% of all strokes, with BAO accounting for ~1% of all strokes. Symptoms may range from days to months prior to stroke onset.
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 29, 2024
Say blueberries and rates of stroke. Then they applied the specification curve analysis to one specific database—the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) from 2007 to 2014. This time in nutritional epidemiology. Take a moment and think about the methods section of a standard association study.
Emergency Medicine Ireland
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Just to be clear up front we’re going to be talking about taking the lid off for stroke, NOT taking the lid off for TBI. Just to be clear up front we’re going to be talking about taking the lid off for stroke, NOT taking the lid off for TBI. I will get to TBI. I will get to TBI but they are really quite different topics.
Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 21, 2023
[Simpson 1991] No one system universally accepted like adult standard GCS [Simpson 1991, Jain 2022] “There is an evident need for valid standards of paediatric head injury severity, to permit comparisons of different methods of treatment.” PubMed: 29631516] van Heuven AW, Dorhout Mees SM, Algra A, Rinkel GJ. 2008 Apr;39(4):1347-8. 107.498345.
ACEP Now
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Passively, I watch another clinician’s cursory examination of a critically ill patient to determine how they deem a patient “toxic-appearing” or their bedside neurological assessment to activate a code stroke. Actively, I ask them on their patients that we both had the opportunity to see: What abscesses would they prefer to pack?
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