Hello everyone. My name is Mike Estefan and I thank you for downloading this month's episode of the EM Clarkship podcast.

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So today, we're going to be talking about acute ischemic stroke. I'm going to break this episode

into two parts. Part one will cover diagnostics and stroke mimics. And part 2 will cover the treatments

for ischemic stroke. Part 1, Diagnostics and Stroke Mimics. I want to start this part off by simply

painting a picture of my general workflow for most stroke patients,

and then we'll dive a little deeper into the nuances. So let's say you're at work and you get an

EMS call for a possible stroke alert pre-hospital. I typically will meet the patient in the hallway

where EMS comes in to get a point of care blood sugar and do a very quick, less than 60 second examination.

And to quickly assess if this is somebody that I'm going to give thrombolyics to or not.

All in all, this takes about two minutes, which typically happens while the patient is getting

registered, and then off to the CT scanner they go.

If they are a candidate for thrombolynics, and I plan on giving them, I'll go with the patient

to the CT scanner.

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