The Specialist Forum Volume 13 No 11 November 2013 | Page 67
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Approximately a third of acute stroke patients die and another third are left permanently disabled.
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The NINDS study show that intravenous tPA was effective treating ischeamic strokes within three hours.
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The ECASS study confirmed efficacy of IV tPA op to six hours.
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Big intracranial artery, strokes responds well to IV tPA.
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TPA is not a neurotoxic drug.
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New thrombolytic drugs are much more effective to treat ischaemic strokes
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Large artery occlusions mostly do well and reperfusion therapy makes no difference.
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Reperfusion of serebral arteries does not correlate with functional outcome.
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The Trevo mechanical device was the first to be approves by the FDA.
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The modified Rankin scale is useful to evaluate functional stroke outcomes.
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The NIHS system is of no use to evaluate severity of stroke and guide treatment.
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TPA often fails to achieve reperfusion after 4.5 hours.
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