Doing the basics better
I hope, at this point, you’ve all heard of the FAST acronym for identifying signs of a cerebrovascular accident (aka stroke). My in-laws even have a magnet on their fridge with a great comic strip describing the FAST acronym. I have run in to a couple different versions of it in the last few years,Continue reading “Emergency Response Screening”
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Research is piling in regarding the neurological effects of COVID-19 and the depth of the research is giving us some really concrete information to help guide treatment, screening, and monitoring strategies. The anecdotal evidence is continuing to build quickly so I’ve significantly updated this post to reflect some of the more recent changes and findings.Continue reading “COVID Brain”
We can basically thank our old friend sepsis for the presentation of strokes in patients with COVID-19. This virus has changed so much and so frequently since it landed stateside, but there was evidence from its China days that neurological involvement was implicated. Initially, though, it all started in the lungs. We talked about thisContinue reading “So Now COVID-19 Results in Strokes (and other neat things about ACE2 receptors)”
Doctor B (the PT)