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Brugada Electrocardiogram Pattern Induced by Cannabis; is cannabis safe?
The objective of this study was to present a case report that bring attention to relationship between cannabis consumption and Brugada electrocardiogram pattern (BEP). Here we present a case of a 19-year-old male patient with symptomatic BEP induced after cannabis consumption. With the potential for more widespread legalization of cannabis several studies are raising the issue of adverse vascular effects of cannabis, including myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathy, stroke, transient ischemic attack, and cannabis arteritis.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 30, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Joaquín Valle Alonso, Beatrix Theo, F. Javier Fonseca del Pozo, Miguel Angel Aguayo, Almudena Sanchez Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Brugada electrocardiogram pattern induced by cannabis; is cannabis safe?
The objective of this study was to present a case report that brings attention to relationship between cannabis consumption and Brugada electrocardiogram pattern. Here, we present a case of a 19-year-old male patient with symptomatic Brugada electrocardiogram pattern induced after cannabis consumption. With the potential for more widespread legalization of cannabis, several studies are raising the issue of adverse vascular effects of cannabis, including myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathy, stroke, transient ischemic attack, and cannabis arteritis.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 29, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Joaqu ín Valle Alonso, Beatrix Huei-Yi Teo, F. Javier Fonseca del Pozo, Miguel Angel Aguayo, Almudena Sanchez Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Is it dangerous to treat acute ischemic stroke by thrombolytic therapy in patients with comorbid intracranial aneurysms
The safety of cerebral ischemic stroke patients with comorbid intracranial aneurysms treated by thrombolysis is still an unsolved mystery. We aimed to perform a secondary analysis and review to provide evidence on whether stroke patients with intracranial aneurysms have worse outcomes following thrombolysis.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 16, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jiayue Ding, Jie Han, Zhe Jing, Yue Jiang Source Type: research

Bradycardia caused by Intravenous Nicardipine in an Elderly Patient with Acute Ischemic Infarct
We report the case of an elderly patient with an acute ischemic stroke who developed nicardipineinduced bradycardia in the ED.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 17, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael E. Abboud, Sarah E. Frasure Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Pre-procedure Change in Arterial Occlusion in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients undergoing Endovascular Treatment by CT Angiography
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines strongly recommend a noninvasive intracranial vascular study such as CT angiogram in acute stroke patient if endovascular treatment is contemplated.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - February 4, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Adnan I. Qureshi, Mushtaq H. Qureshi, Farhan Siddiq, Daraspreet Kainth, Ameer E. Hassan, Alberto Maud Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research

Preprocedure change in arterial occlusion in acute ischemic stroke patients undergoing endovascular treatment by computed tomographic angiography
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association guidelines strongly recommend a noninvasive intracranial vascular study such as computed tomographic (CT) angiogram in acute stroke patient if endovascular treatment is contemplated.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - February 4, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Adnan I. Qureshi, Mushtaq H. Qureshi, Farhan Siddiq, Daraspreet Kainth, Ameer E. Hassan, Alberto Maud Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research

Ischemic Stroke Differential Diagnose: Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma can be fatal
Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma (SSEH) is rarely seen, it is the important reason for the spinal cord compression. Patients generally visit the doctor due to the acute pain in the neck and interscapular area. The male patient 58years old was admitted to the emergency service of our hospital with the sudden onset neck pain and followed by rapidly right hemiparesis He arrived at our hospital 120minutes after the onset of her symptoms with suspected acute stroke. We assessed for acute stroke performed clinical examinations necessary for intravenous thrombolytic treatment with alteplase, No abnormality was observed in his...
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - January 21, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Huseyin Buyukgol, M. Kemal Ilik, Faik Ilik Source Type: research

Intraparenchymal hemorrhage after heroin use
Heroin-associated stroke is a rare complication of use. Various proposed mechanisms of heroin-associated ischemic stroke have been proposed, including the following: cardioembolism in the setting of infective endocarditis, hypoxic ischemic brain injury in the setting of hypoxemia and hypotension, and infective arteritis or vasculitis from drug adulterants. A previously healthy 28-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and normal vitals after she was found wandering outside her apartment.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - January 16, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neha Kumar, Mary Colleen Bhalla, Jennifer A. Frey, Alison Southern Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Acute Vertebrobasilar Ischemic Stroke Due To Electric Injury
Electrical injuries are most commonly due to household accidents. Various factors determine the severity of electric injury, including type of current, amperage, voltage, tissue resistance, pathway of current and duration of contact with the body. Various types of neurological damage due to electrical injury have been described in literature. It may manifest as peripheral nerve injury, spinal cord damage, seizures, cerebellar ataxia, hypoxic encephalopathy and intracerebral hemorrhage. Acute ischemic stroke is an infrequent complication of electrical injury.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - January 6, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Rajendra Singh Jain, Sunil Kumar, Desai Tushar Suresh, Rakesh Agarwal Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

Diagnostic value of plasma Signal Peptide-Cub-Egf domain-containing protein-1 (SCUBE-1) in an experimental model of acute ischemic stroke
Considering the critical role of early action in management of stroke, there is still a need for a biomarker that would reliably assist in the early diagnosis and patient selection for tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) therapy, which has provided a considerable success in terms of mortality and morbidity of patients with stroke. This is particularly important if this novel biochemical marker that could give rapid results, specific for brain damage and that can be used in the emergency setting for early diagnosis and differentiation from other conditions that mimics some stroke findings [1,2].
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 2, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Turkmen Suha, Eryigit Umut, Karaca Yunus, Mentese Ahmet, Uzun Sumer Aysegul, Yulug Esin, Aksut Nurhak, Gazioglu Sibel, Gunduz Abdulkadir Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research

Improved door-to-needle times and neurologic outcomes when IV tissue plasminogen activator is administered by emergency physicians with advanced neuroscience training
The neurologic emergency department (neuro ED) at our medical center is staffed by emergency medicine physicians who have specialized neuroscience training and give intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) independently for acute ischemic stroke patients. Door-to-needle (DTN) times, discharge location, and discharge National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores were studied between the neuro ED and main emergency department (ED) with the hypothesis that all measures would be better in the neuro ED group.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Karen Greenberg, Christina R. Maxwell, Keisha D. Moore, Michael D’Ambrosio, Kenneth Liebman, Erol Veznedaroglu, Geri Sanfillippo, Cynthia Diaz, Mandy J. Binning Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research

Improved Door-to-Needle Times and Neurological Outcomes when IV-tPA is Administered by Emergency Physicians with Advanced Neuroscience Training
The neurologic emergency department (neuro ED) at our medical center is staffed by emergency medicine physicians who have specialized neuroscience training and give IV tPA independently for acute ischemic stroke patients. Door-to-needle times (DTN), discharge location, and discharge NIHSS scores were studied between the neurologic emergency department and main emergency department with the hypothesis that all measures would be better in the neuro ED group.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Karen Greenberg, Christina R. Maxwell, Keisha D. Moore, Michael D’Ambrosio, Kenneth Liebman, Erol Veznedaroglu, Geri Sanfillippo MSN, Cynthia Diaz, Mandy J. Binning Source Type: research

Improved door-to-needle times and neurologic outcomes when intravenous tissue plasminogen activator is administered by emergency physicians with advanced neuroscience training
The neurologic emergency department (neuro ED) at our medical center is staffed by emergency medicine physicians who have specialized neuroscience training and give intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) independently for acute ischemic stroke patients. Door-to-needle (DTN) times, discharge location, and discharge National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores were studied between the neuro ED and main emergency department (ED) with the hypothesis that all measures would be better in the neuro ED group.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - November 28, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Karen Greenberg, Christina R. Maxwell, Keisha D. Moore, Michael D’Ambrosio, Kenneth Liebman, Erol Veznedaroglu, Geri Sanfillippo, Cynthia Diaz, Mandy J. Binning Tags: Original Contributions Source Type: research

Hydration therapy: critical intervention in the ED to prevent stroke in evolution after acute ischemic stroke
We read the original article by Lin et al [1] with great enthusiasm. The authors have revealed the role of simple hydration therapy to prevent stroke in evolution (SIE) after acute ischemic stroke (AIS), which was done according to World Health Organization hydration protocol 2005 for diarrhea. They have concluded that providing hydration therapy to patients who present with a blood urea nitrogen/creatinine (BUN/Cr) ratio greater than or equal to 15 after ischemic stroke may help prevent the development of SIE, and such prevention is likely to improve prognosis given that SIE is a key indicator of poor prognosis after stroke.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - September 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Meera Ekka, Sashi Bhusan Lakra, Praveen Aggarwal, Nayer Jamshed Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research

Intramural hematoma of the esophagus after thrombolysis for ischemic stroke
We report the case of an 88-year-old woman who developed an intramural hematoma of the esophagus after intravenous thrombolysis for an acute ischemic stroke. Before thrombolysis, nasogastric intubation was attempted unsuccessfully. She was kept on nil by mouth, intravenous hydration, proton pump inhibitor, antiemetics, and an antibiotic initiated 2 days before for periodontal disease.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 29, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mario Jorge Silva, Joana Saiote, Vera Salvado, Ana Paiva Nunes, Pedro Duarte Tags: Case report Source Type: research

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