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Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. Episode 11 – Ischemic Stroke 2013. EMCrit Blog. Published on March 4, 2013. Accessed on March 20th 2025. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/ischemic-stroke-2013/ ].
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The course director, Dr. Scott D. Weingart MD FCCM, reports no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. This episode’s speaker(s) report no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies unless listed above.
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Original Release: March 4, 2013
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Scott, With the stroke guidelines published prior to the release of MR RESCUE, IMS III AND SYNTHESIS expansion investigators all showing no benefit to IA tPA +/- thrombectomy over IV tPA do you think this will change the utility of the CTA in acute ischemic stroke? I used to get CTA’s to evaluate for possible thrombectomy in patients with large cortical lesions, but now I’m less convinced (assuming we weren’t looking for a dissection). Are you going to cover these studies in any future podcasts, as I think many big academic shops had been using IA lysis +/- thrombectomy to… Read more »
Only if someone writes a guideline on it.
Hey Scott,
Just FYI, you ACEP link is not working for the ACEP 2013 Guidelines. I have attached here in case anyone needs it. Thanks for the great podcast series.
Salim
http://www.aan.com/practice/guideline/uploads/584.pdf