Search results for "Stroke"
August 10, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/
COX-2 inhibitors associated with greater risk for death after ischemic stroke
Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor use before hospital admission for ischemic stroke was associated with a higher 30-day mortality rate, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/11/12/5.htm
12 Nov 2014
February 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/
Guidelines issued on early management of acute ischemic stroke
The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association recently issued updated guidelines on the early management of acute ischemic stroke.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/02/13/1.htm
13 Feb 2013
June 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/
Complications rare when stroke mimics are treated with tPA, study finds
An analysis of the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Registry found that 3.5% of patients who received IV tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) for a suspected ischemic stroke were eventually found to have a stroke mimic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/21/1.htm
21 Aug 2019
June 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/06/
Alternative antiplatelet agents, alone or as adjunct, more effective than continuing aspirin monotherapy after new ischemic stroke
Study authors noted that, despite the overall benefits, on the outcome of stroke recurrence alone, the difference between switching to other agents and continuing monotherapy was not statistically significant, possibly due to low statistical power.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/12/09/3.htm
9 Dec 2015
January 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/
Patients with and without lesions have similar outcomes after nondisabling ischemic stroke
Twenty-nine percent of patients who had a nondisabling ischemic stroke did not have a lesion identified on diffusion-weighted MRI.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/07/2.htm
7 Oct 2015