This is a guest post by Dr. Lanujan Kaneswaran. Lanujan is a second-year Family Medicine resident at the University of Toronto. He has a background in medical health informatics and machine learning. His areas of interest include artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine, and health equity through advocacy and […]
ischemic stroke
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This is a guest post by Dr. Katie Lin. Dr. Katie Lin is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary, a Stroke Attending with the Calgary Stroke Program, and a critical care Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance in Alberta. She completed her residency training and stroke fellowship in Calgary […]
Since my rather lengthy write up of the stroke literature, there have been new RCTs published looking at thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke. No, we haven’t got the replication of NINDS that we so desperately need. However, the new trials do represent a step forward in our thinking about stroke: […]
There have been a few new thrombolytic RCTs since I published my review of the stroke literature, and it is probably about time that I got around to writing about them. On the one hand, I think it is exciting that we are moving past the flawed time-based selection of […]
