
#385 TIA/Stroke for the Hospitalist featuring Dr. Karima Benameur
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Stroke Alert - Imaging vs Strombolytics?
Toast is a 61 year old with a past medical history of hyperlipidemia coronary artery disease who had a PCI two months ago and an Unprovoked DVT on lifelong anti-cavagulation. She was sitting at home and got up off the couch and her right leg gave away and she felled before Her current medications include aspirin 81 milligrams, cupidogirl, 75 milligrams,. a pixigant and 5 milligrams BID and a 12-a-sattent 20 milligrams daily On arrival in the emergency department the stroke team sees her as a stroller and her NIH stroke scale is 6 So given this elevated NIH stroke
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