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#385 TIA/Stroke for the Hospitalist featuring Dr. Karima Benameur

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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TPA and Thrombac to Me Times Frames

For TPA the current guidelines are That if a patient has no contraindications And as a candidate they can get it up to four 4 and a half hours after last known normal. For Thrombac to me, it's actually now up to 24 hours But there are many things that go into that Into that decision, you know, how much salvage we basically use an imaging algorithm to see how much salvageable tissue there is. So for miss toast who's had symptoms for the last 24 hours Let's say she came in six to eight hours or something like that You kind of mentioned this in the first answer when you said, you know,. sometimes you would consider getting CTA

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