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Know your stroke mimics
A developmentally normal and previously well 15-year-old boy, presented to hospital with a 4-hour history of gradually worsening, throbbing, left-sided headache spreading across his whole head. Four hours prior, he could not read properly or string words together and felt tired. He developed a headache followed by expressive aphasia, agitation and vomiting. A right-sided lower facial droop was noted that resolved in a couple of hours. He played a rugby match in the morning and there was a history of minor head injury without loss of consciousness. He started to develop self-resolving apnoeic episodes each lasting for 30&nd...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - March 17, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Hanna, D., Holland, J., Lichtblau, N., Maduakor, C., Khan, F., Kerr, T. Tags: Epilogue Source Type: research

The FAST VAN for Field Identification of Large Vessel Occlusion in Acute Stroke
DISCUSSION: The FAST VAN tool for identification of LVO meets desired characteristics of an effective screening tool in ease of use, efficiency, and accuracy. Aphasia remains the most challenging cortical feature to identify accurately.PMID:35581931 | DOI:10.1017/cjn.2022.32
Source: The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences - May 18, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Sanchea Wasyliw Ruth Whelan Kim Davy Michael E Kelly Brett Graham Layla Gould Gary Hunter Source Type: research