Articles Tagged With: stroke
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New Studies Suggest Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote monitoring of patients with chronic disease can be cost-effective, improve adherence to therapies, improve care, and help alleviate symptoms, a collection of new studies shows.
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ED Visit Is Teachable Moment on Stroke Care
Researchers provided an ED-based educational intervention to 100 Black patients at an urban facility, including video, brochure, and verbal counseling. After, participants were much more likely to demonstrate confidence in the ability to recognize stroke symptoms in themselves or others and were more likely to feel confident about calling 911 in the case of stroke warning signs.
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Measure Stroke Risk with Asymptomatic Severe Carotid Artery Stenosis
A community-based, retrospective, observational study of patients with asymptomatic severe carotid artery stenoses showed the crude stroke risk over five years was about 5%. Patients whose stenoses progress to high grade or start at that severity were at the highest risk for stroke.
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Few People with Limited English Proficiency Participate in Stroke Studies
Rather than making the IRB processes more difficult for researchers who wish to include underrepresented populations in their study, IRBs should work with researchers to overcome obstacles.
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Mechanical Thrombectomy with or Without Intravenous Thrombolysis?
Current stroke treatment guidelines recommend combined use of intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase prior to endovascular thrombectomy for patients with large vessel occlusion. However, there continues to be controversy surrounding this recommendation, and these investigators undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of completed therapeutic trials to help resolve the controversy.
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Endovascular Thrombectomy with or Without Alteplase? Get With The Guidelines
Since 2015, endovascular thrombectomy with intravenous alteplase has been the standard of care for patients with large vessel occlusion and ischemic stroke. However, since that time, the continuing use of alteplase has been questioned by many practitioners and investigators.
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Does Tranexamic Acid Treatment of Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage Cause Ischemic Stroke?
Acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is one of the least treatable forms of stroke. Tranexamic acid now is being studied as a hemostatic agent in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. However, similar to the use of other antifibrinolytic drugs, there is concern that there may be ischemic complications from this treatment, including ischemic stroke.
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ED Visit Is Teachable Moment on Stroke Care
Researchers provided an ED-based educational intervention to 100 Black patients at an urban facility, including video, brochure, and verbal counseling. After, participants were much more likely to demonstrate confidence in the ability to recognize stroke symptoms in themselves or others and were more likely to feel confident about calling 911 in the case of stroke warning signs.
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Does Tranexamic Acid Treatment of Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage Cause Ischemic Stroke?
Acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is one of the least treatable forms of stroke. Tranexamic acid now is being studied as a hemostatic agent in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. However, similar to the use of other antifibrinolytic drugs, there is concern that there may be ischemic complications from this treatment, including ischemic stroke.
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Endovascular Thrombectomy with or Without Alteplase? Get With The Guidelines.
Since 2015, endovascular thrombectomy with intravenous alteplase has been the standard of care for patients with large vessel occlusion and ischemic stroke. However, since that time, the continuing use of alteplase has been questioned by many practitioners and investigators.