I know many people are fed up with the debate about thrombolytics for acute ischemic stroke. (To be honest, I am as well. I wish we could just get the replication studies required to settle the issue, but opinions are so entrenched that the normal scientific process has been stifled.) […]
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Although I am taking a break from posting as part of my paternity leave, there were a number of projects underway before that break started. One that I was most excited about was a collaboration with Ken Milne to write an updated summary of the evidence for thrombolytics for acute […]
Time for another rapid recap of some important, inane, or interesting emergency medicine literature. Not a single paper about coronavirus though – you will have to stick to CNN for that. As always, the podcast version will be on the BroomeDocs podcast. Hold up – you want to shove that […]
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 […]
