
#385 TIA/Stroke for the Hospitalist featuring Dr. Karima Benameur
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Having a Large Vascular Occlusion in a Patient With a Stroke
If a patient is young and has No vascular risk factors. I will get a TEE Um because I am hunting for the cause of the stroke Basically, that's what it is I am hunting to find out why they have had a stroke. Frequently patients get a monitor of some kind on this search Correct. So they need to be on telemetry while in the hospitalUm The patients that do get a monitor on this charge are the patients where we suspect an Anabolic etiology, but we were not able to capture a fib in the hospital so then um there's data that shows that prolonged monitoring actually increases your your chances of capturing a fib And then just to clarify so let's say
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