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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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PRINCIPLE Investigators Study Inhaled Budesonide for COVID-19

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Finally, a relatively small [n = 146] randomized, controlled trial in outpatients with no more than 7 days of COVID-19-related symptoms measured the effect of inhaled budesonide on urgent care utilization and symptom duration. This trend was in-line with the observations of the STOIC randomized trial.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 9/28/23 (Issue #15)

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Systemic corticosteroids (such as intravenous dexamethasone) improve outcomes in severe pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. It makes sense that inhaled steroids might improve outcomes from less severe infections. Do inhaled steroids improve Covid pneumonia? About two thirds of patients in each arm were vaccinated.

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A Plan to Refocus Primary Care

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As an example, the recent guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke features diet and exercise recommendations as part of their “Life’s Essential 8” as well as a call to screen for social determinants of health in all patients. Is the time spent counseling changing patient-centered outcomes?