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SGEM#333: Do you gotta be starting something – like tPA before EVT?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. He also works at an urgent care and a rural critical access hospital. Effect of Mechanical Thrombectomy Without vs With Intravenous Thrombolysis on Functional Outcome Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: The SKIP Randomized Clinical Trial.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

MI or stroke). One also has to keep in mind that this study occurred at Level 1 trauma centers and may not be applicable in critical access hospitals or lower leveled trauma centers. TXA does not increase the incidence of thromboembolic events such as DVT/PE, stroke, or MI. Arch Surg 2012; 147:113-119.[