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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to another edition of the First1oEM articles of the month – a collection of my favorite reads from the emergency medicine literature. Location, location, location Drennan IR, Strum RP, Byers A et al. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in high-rise buildings: delays to patient care and effect on survival. Canadian Medical […]