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Abstract 219: Interdisciplinary Education and Relationship Building Improve Communication and Coordination in Stroke Care Session Title: Poster Session II
Conclusion: Through providing education to EMS providers and building relationships between EMS and hospitals, there has been a significant increase in pre-notification by EMS therefore improving timeliness of CT scans in acute stroke patients.
Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - March 31, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Thorson, S., Sather, J., Alexander, J., Cook, M. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session II Source Type: research

Fighting for Kennedy: Coping with moyamoya disease
If you happen to be waiting in line at the supermarket with Kennedy Grace Cheshire, you’ll likely leave the store with a whole new group of friends. This outgoing five-year-old can’t resist introducing herself to her fellow shoppers — and then introducing them to each other. “She’s never met a stranger,” says her mother, Amber. Kennedy, who lives in Texas, brought that playful attitude to the East Coast last year when she and her family arrived at Boston Children’s Hospital for evaluation and treatment. At age two, she had been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that causes symptoms...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 21, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jessica Cerretani Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Dr. Edward Smith moyamoya Moyamoya Disease Program Source Type: news

The Day That Went Missing: A First-Person Account of Transient Global Amnesia
In this vivid first-person case history, political reporter Trip Gabriel describes experiencing a classic episode of transient global amnesia. He was near the average target age of 61. Although no cause has been established for the syndrome, as with many other patients his episode appears to have been triggered by contact with water: He was racing a sailboat. While remaining alert and handling complex sailing maneuvers, he suddenly developed amnesia that left him with no recollection of finishing two races, returning to shore, drinking a beer with his friends, needing help finding his car, and not knowing where he was or w...
Source: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology - March 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: First-Person Case History Source Type: research

Chicago's Rush University Medical Center Offers Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit
  The Rush University Medical Center stroke program is one of the few in the country to offer a mobile stroke treatment unit as a part of its emergency medical services. This year Rush will join Excellence Inc. at the International Stroke Conference 2017 where the RUSH mobile stroke treatment unit will make its debut. On display will be the unit’s state-of-the-art features, including the ability to diagnose patients for a stroke on-site with an onboard CT scanner. Rush University Medical Center’s stroke program was one of the first in Chicago to receive comprehensive certification from the J...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - February 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Excellence Tags: News Videos Ambulances & Vehicle Ops Patient Care Source Type: news

Clinical Evaluation of the Patient With Acute Stroke
This article reviews the clinical evaluation of the patient with acute stroke, including key questions in the focused stroke history, important aspects of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and focused neurologic examination, and the significance of the basic head CT scan in informing a timely treatment decision. Recent Findings: Advances in both stroke treatment and enhanced diagnostics support an evolving paradigm for acute stroke care, ranging from the prehospital setting to the rehabilitative setting. An international emphasis on best practice strategies promotes efficiency and standardization in stroke sy...
Source: CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology - February 1, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research

Fast access to stroke procedure saves Wilmington woman ’s life and health
Treatment TermsStroke CategoriesAdvanced treatments Additional SEO Keywords stroke, stroke symptoms, stroke care, stroke treatment, tpa, tissue plasminogen activator, ischemic stroke, thrombectomy, stent retriever, warning stroke, mini-stroke, blood clot in brain, clot buster SEO Meta Description Duke Raleigh Hospital is one of a handful in NC that offers lifesaving thrombectomy for stroke. Dara Damery got transferred there from Wilmington just in time. Author MaryAnn Fletcher Overview Duke Raleigh Hospital is one of a handful in NC that offers lifesaving thrombectomy for stroke. Dara Damery got transferred there ...
Source: dukehealth.org: Health Features - January 20, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mf205 at duke.edu Source Type: news

Mapping Traumatic Brain Injuries
There's been an increasing amount of media attention to the topic of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) -bolstered in part by conversations surrounding the 2015 Hollywood blockbuster Concussion. The movie Concussion describes a particular phenomenon, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, which occurs in the brain after repeated high impact blows to the head. The diagnosis of CTE requires examining brain tissue under a microscope after death, so it can't be diagnosed in living individuals. But in fact, there are many types of TBI, with concussion being the mildest (but most common) form. Today, brain mapping techniques are mak...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - January 17, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news

Disconnection between the default mode network and medial temporal lobes in post-traumatic amnesia
See Bigler (doi:10.1093/aww277) for a scientific commentary on this article. Post-traumatic amnesia is very common immediately after traumatic brain injury. It is characterized by a confused, agitated state and a pronounced inability to encode new memories and sustain attention. Clinically, post-traumatic amnesia is an important predictor of functional outcome. However, despite its prevalence and functional importance, the pathophysiology of post-traumatic amnesia is not understood. Memory processing relies on limbic structures such as the hippocampus, parahippocampus and parts of the cingulate cortex. These structures are...
Source: Brain - December 1, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: De Simoni, S., Grover, P. J., Jenkins, P. O., Honeyfield, L., Quest, R. A., Ross, E., Scott, G., Wilson, M. H., Majewska, P., Waldman, A. D., Patel, M. C., Sharp, D. J. Tags: CNS Injury and Stroke Original Articles Source Type: research

Automated detection of white matter hyperintensities of all sizes in cerebral small vessel disease.
CONCLUSIONS: The authors have developed a CAD system with all its ingredients being optimized for a better detection of WMHs of all size, which shows performance close to an independent reader. PMID: 27908171 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Medical Physics - November 30, 2016 Category: Physics Authors: Ghafoorian M, Karssemeijer N, van Uden IW, de Leeuw FE, Heskes T, Marchiori E, Platel B Tags: Med Phys Source Type: research

Philips launches Intellispace Portal 9.0 radiological visual analysis & quantification platform
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) said today it launched its IntelliSpace Portal 9.0, the most recent iteration of its radiological visual analysis and quantification platform. The new version of the platform utilizes machine learning to aid operating radiologists in detecting, diagnosing and following-up on treatment for diseases and traumas, such as brain juries and neurological disorders including dementia, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis. “As the rates of dementia and neurodegeneration rise, neuroradiologists need advanced tools to help referring physicians treat these challenging cases. Inte...
Source: Mass Device - November 29, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Imaging Software / IT Royal Philips Source Type: news

Automated quantification of cerebral edema following hemispheric infarction: Application of a machine-learning algorithm to evaluate CSF shifts on serial head CTs
In conclusion, we have developed and validated an accurate automated approach to segment CSF and calculate its shifts on serial CT scans. This algorithm will allow us to efficiently and accurately measure the evolution of cerebral edema in future studies including large multi-site patient populations.
Source: NeuroImage: Clinical - September 25, 2016 Category: Radiology Source Type: research

Robust low-dose dynamic cerebral perfusion CT image restoration via coupled dictionary learning scheme.
Authors: Tian X, Zeng D, Zhang S, Huang J, Zhang H, He J, Lu L, Xi W, Ma J, Bian Z Abstract Dynamic cerebral perfusion x-ray computed tomography (PCT) imaging has been advocated to quantitatively and qualitatively assess hemodynamic parameters in the diagnosis of acute stroke or chronic cerebrovascular diseases. However, the associated radiation dose is a significant concern to patients due to its dynamic scan protocol. To address this issue, in this paper we propose an image restoration method by utilizing coupled dictionary learning (CDL) scheme to yield clinically acceptable PCT images with low-dose data acquisi...
Source: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology - September 11, 2016 Category: Radiology Tags: J Xray Sci Technol Source Type: research

A Surprising Number Of People Can't Recognize Voices
For me, caller ID is one of the best inventions of all time. Before it became mainstream, I dreaded picking up the phone. A lot of times, I couldn’t recognize the person on the other side by just hearing his or her voice, and so I was often subjected to a slew of jokes and mockery and puzzle-solving. It turns out I was hardly alone in my misery. An inability to identify people by their voices is a poorly understood deficit called phonagnosia ― a term coming from “phone,” meaning “voice” in Ancient Greek, and “agnosia,” meaning a “loss of knowledge.” And the ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 7, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news