Stroke Medicine - FAQs for FY Docs
Apr 22, 2015•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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Episode description
Title: Stroke Medicine - FAQs for F1s
Host(s): Pete Brock
Guest(s): Mark Garside, Gemma Smith, James Muggleton & Eve Braithwaite
Opening Question: If for 24 hours you could do any other job in the hospital, what would it be?
Main Topic: Addressing the issues related to stroke we commonly find difficult
Discussion Points:
- Assessing patients who will not comply with your examination
- What are the stroke mimics
- Face a bit droopy, speech a bit slurred, bit confused – is this a stroke?
- How do you diagnose posterior circulation strokes?
- What happens in a stroke unit?
CotEcast Commandments:
- Think stroke, and act quickly - time is brain!
- It’s a bleed until proven otherwise
- Say what you see
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