Racial Disparities in Atrial Cardiopathy Among Ischemic Stroke Patients
Differences in left atrial structure and pathophysiology between Black and white ischemic stroke patients may help explain…
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Racial Disparities in Atrial Cardiopathy Among Ischemic Stroke Patients
Differences in left atrial structure and pathophysiology between Black and white ischemic stroke patients may help explain... -
How Accurate Are Prehospital Prediction Scales for Large Anterior Vessel Occlusion?
A comparison of seven prediction scales for symptomatic large anterior vessel occlusion (sLAVO) found that all had... -
E-QUAL 2021 Enrollment Open for Opioid, Stroke Collaboratives
E-QUAL 2021 enrollment is open. Emergency departments can enroll for free. This year’s Opioid Wave IV, with...
How Accurate Are Prehospital Prediction Scales for Large Anterior Vessel Occlusion?
A comparison of seven prediction scales for symptomatic large anterior vessel occlusion (sLAVO) found that all had…
E-QUAL 2021 Enrollment Open for Opioid, Stroke Collaboratives
E-QUAL 2021 enrollment is open. Emergency departments can enroll for free. This year’s Opioid Wave IV, with…
The Best ACEP Now Articles of 2020
As Medical Editor in Chief of ACEP Now, feedback is never in short supply. When you love…
2020 Research Highlights: Cardiology, Intra-Abdominal Infections, Advanced Imaging, and Cerebrovascular Disease
While COVID-19 occupied much of our bandwidth in 2020, new medical literature on other important topics still…
After Re-Analysis, No Trials Show Efficacy of tPA in Acute Ischemic Stroke
The Case A 71-year-old woman arrives to the ED by EMS with right-sided weakness beginning 3 hours…
Endovascular Therapy With or Without tPA—What Do the Studies Say?
The Case A 61-year-old healthy female presents with two hours of right-side weakness as well as slurred…
Breaking Updates in Critical Care and Stroke
Early this year, two important conferences outside our specialty unveiled a spate of new findings whose impact…
Posterior Strokes: “A wolf in sheep’s clothing”
For emergency physician Rachel Garvin, MD, FNCS, properly diagnosing posterior circulation strokes is a passion. But practicing…
Simple Ischemic Stroke: Is There Really Such a Thing?
The Case A 50-year-old male with no known past medical history is brought to the emergency department…