Archive for May, 2010
XIX. European Stroke Conference: Barcelona, Spain:25 – 28 May 2010
Since 1990, the European physicians and scientists are meeting in a conference to discuss their latest research activities in stroke. The orginsers of the European Stroke conference managed to oragnise a special meeting for the stroke nurses and the allied health professionals working in stroke care. This type of activity was started successfully in 2007. [...]
Thrombolysing stroke patients works up to 4.5 hours after the brain attack
Professor K. Lees and his team have published recently (The Lancet 2010;375:1695-1703) the results of their pooled analysis of the data from the stroke thrombolysis trails. Early administration of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) after ischaemic stroke improves outcome. Previous analysis of combined data from individual patients suggested potential benefit beyond 3 h [...]
