Stroke Management; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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The Importance of Homeostasis in Stroke
In an ideal world, you'd unblock the stroke and save brain tissue from that ischemia. If you don't do something about it at that point, then it's going to go on to infarct further. The best thing you could possibly do would be to get rid of the blockage in the pipes. And I think there's a couple of things that are definitely beneficial for these patients. Once we have identified that this patient has a stroke, then we need to sort of activate the pathways as soon as possible. Now, interestingly, the brand new JRCalk UK ambulance guidelines have literally just been published. This is very much applicable to everybody else given what we were
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