Remove Administration Remove Critical Access Remove Stroke
article thumbnail

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.

Stroke 52
article thumbnail

Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

2][3] If earlier treatment with TXA is better, would there be benefit in its administration in the prehospital setting? Association between prehospital tranexamic acid administration and outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury. MI or stroke). If so, could this be done safely? JAMA Neurol. 2021;78(3):338–345.

article thumbnail

Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Now, many PID patients are treated and released after ED administration of appropriate antibiotics to eradicate possible infection by Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis , often with added treatment for anaerobic microbes. Acute pyelonephritis has become a disease for which outpatient management is often feasible and appropriate.