ACEP E-QUAL 50: tPA for Stroke and Litigation

This episode is a rapid fire review of litigation issues surrounding the provision of (or lack of provision of) tPA for stroke. Guests: Latha Ganti, MD, MS, MBA Professor of Emergency Medicine & Neurology ,University of Central Florida College of Medicine Joshua N. Goldstein MD, PhD Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School Host: Jason Woods MD References: Chernyshev OY, Martin-Schild S, Albright KC, Barreto A, Misra V, Acosta I, Grotta JC, Savitz SI. Safety of tPA in stroke mimics and neuroimaging-negative cerebral ischemia. Neurology. 2010 Apr 27;74(17):1340-5. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181dad5a6. Epub 2010 Mar 24. PMID: 20335564; PMCID: PMC2875935. Gebel JM, Sila CA, Sloan MA, Granger CB, Mahaffey KW, Weisenberger J, Green CL, White HD, Gore JM, Weaver WD, Califf RM, Topol EJ. Thrombolysis-related intracranial hemorrhage: a radiographic analysis of 244 cases from the GUSTO-1 trial with clinical correlation. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries. Stroke. 1998 Mar;29(3):563-9. doi: 10.1161/01.str.29.3.563. PMID: 9506593. Kass J et al. CONTINUUM (MINNEAP MINN) 2020;26(2, CEREBROvascular disease): 499-505

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ACEP E-QUAL 50: tPA for Stroke and Litigation is an episode from Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) Podcast by Academic Life in Emergency Medicine.

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This episode was published on Jun 17, 2022.

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