RAGE Session Two
Submassive pulmonary embolus and thrombolysis, humans in the resus room, Edgar Pask, Hunter, Osler and the art of observation
Tag Thrombolysis
a perplexing paradox…
The case. a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier.
Busting the clotbusters (from SMACC 2013)
As revenge for an incident best left unmentioned, Chris Nickson of litfl.com handed me the poisoned chalice of speaking on tPA for stroke at SMACC 2013. This is the result. (Un)fortunately there is no actual video footage as I wasn’t…