stroke

When patients with acute stroke symptoms are treated on a mobile stroke unit (MSU) and receive anti-clot medication faster, they have less disability at 90 days, reported a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by…

Telemedicine has become a priority, not only when it comes to stroke. A source of interest from the scientific community for several years, it has become indispensable since Covid-19 brutally revolutionized patient approach protocols.

COVID-19-positive stroke patients are more likely to experience stroke in areas of the brain that are associated with more severe strokes, to have worse outcomes, and to die in the hospital than COVID-19-negative stroke patients, according…

Several patients affected by COVID-19 presented with cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Here we report 4 cases of patients with coronavirus but allegedly thought to have a stroke, but they had both.

Could blood pressure medication be a good solution to reduce cardiovascular diseases? Cardiac arrests and strokes are the major causes of death worldwide. Below, the largest and most detailed study ever conducted to examine this new…

Dehydration must not be underestimated in paramedics and first responders! On what occasions heat can impact on responders and how to avoid health complications?

Acute stroke is a time-dependent condition. If it happens in a prehospital setting, practitioners have to know how to treat the patient in the best and fastest way as possible. Here the results of a pilot study in Genova (Italy).

A new ambulance with the 5G network to enhance diagnosis and treatment procedures. This piece of news comes from Thailand and this is the brand-new smart ambulance that serves as ER, in case.

Many emergency calls for suspected stroke cases are not done or arrive with much delay because of underestimation of symptoms. Or, emergency calls are done not by patients, but by someone around them. Plus, due to COVID-19, many people…

One in four people in the United States will have a stroke during their lifetime. The real problem is that it is possible that one in four survivors can have it again. In the National Stroke Month, we wish to remind how important is calling…