Stroke Diagnosis and Treatment in the Emergency Department

To the Editor We read with interest the Viewpoint by Avasarala. The author suggested that the diagnosis of acute stroke can, and should, be made without a neurologist, as acute stroke management is a “cookbook” easily performed by nonneurologists, with little downside to treating “false-positives.” We propose that complete stroke diagnosis is not a cookbook algorithm and that stroke care goes beyond the initial diagnosis. The neurologist plays a prominent role in both.
Source: JAMA Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research