I've suffered several "mild" strokes, and the times that I arrived at the Emergency Room well within the three hour window, tPA was never offered as a viable treatment because my strokes were too...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-22026
Diffusion MRI is SOC at the facility I'm associated with and are performed within 30 minutes of notification. All "code strokes" are run by neurologists 24/7. Seems like the ER docs like that as ...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-21744
This is the mass media. Their job is entertainment, with at least a little basis in fact. "There is some quick cure for a major disease, but doctors haven't gotten the message" is entertaining, i...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-21023
Why does it seem that every pro-tPA article (including NYT cited here) includes an anecdote about a patient who receives tPA and recovers immediately? Has anyone actually read NINDS? What is the ...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-18182
Then pay close attention to the National Institute on Health Data. That would be NINDS for the non medical folks. Cut and Dry 6.4 % SICH rate and a 1/3 more patients have minimal to no disability...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-15197
Do you just ignore the “unbiased data” reviewed by collegues to come to these guidline decisions? It's the biased data that I ignore, which is a hell of a lot of it.
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-15171
BR Drexinger said "I have seen for years ER docs, FP docs. interists neuroogists and neurosurgeons take exceent care of people with strokes without the help of the government, JCHA, journalists/N...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-15164
I had a stroke Oct 4 and was given TPA within the 3 hr window. It was 2 blood clots and considered a major stroke. I was released Oct 7 from the hospital and feel good although a little weak on m...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-12659
I know this is a dumb question but how much of this is financilly driven(by what looks like multiple recepients, but definately not true patients or those of us routinely taking care of them) Wha...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-12181
I am a neuroogist in the Atanta area for about 20 yr. This whole thing is discusting I can only give own single personal opinion, but I doubt most practicing neuroogists share the opinions of the...
https://gruntdoc.com/2007/05/tpa-and-stroke-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-12180