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STREAM-2: Half-Dose Tenecteplase vs Primary PCI in Older Patients with STEMI?

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Primary PCI: 95.7% Stents Placed: Pharmaco-Invasive Treatment: 97.4% Primary PCI: 95.7% ECG Results: Repeat ECG 90min after tenecteplase indicated 70.3% of patients in the pharmaco-invasive treatment achieved ≥50% resolution in the lead with the greatest ST-segment elevation Median decline from 3.0 Primary PCI: 78.4% Primary PCI: 13.3%

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Subcutaneous Rehydration

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Well, it turns out, what is old is new again. The idea is not to tape on the growing mound itself, because the mound may pull at the anchored skin and set a nuclear chain reaction of annoyance and restlessness – and potentially a failed procedure. A 25-gauge butterfly or 24-gauge angiocatheter works well from an infant to an elder.

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CT Angiography Head and Neck: Indications and Limitations

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2019) argue against a minimum NIHSS score to trigger the use of CTA, instead purporting that clinical suspicion of acute ischemic stroke presenting within 24 hours of the last known well was sufficient evidence to order the study. Am Surg 2013, 79 (1), 23-29. Eur Radiol 2013, 23 (6), 1443-1449. 8 The data in Mayer et al.

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