Pulsara Around the World - October 2025
September Recap The weather may (finally) be cooling off, but our autumn event season is bringing the heat. 12 down in September and another 12 on...
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Brittany Means, RN, BSN
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Feb 16, 2018
For most, the words “MR CLEAN” evoke thoughts of the bald man on the bottle of your go-to household cleaner, but for those of us in stroke care, those words immediately take us back to the monumental ISC meeting of 2015 – where the clinical trials that forever changed the management of stroke patients were revealed.
While that conference will eternally be a tough act to follow, the meeting of the minds at ISC 2018 DAWNed yet another “New Day in Stroke Care.” Clinical trials such as Arise II, Extend-IA TNK, DEFUSE 3, and further results from DAWN were revealed, and to no surprise, are responsible for much of the research backing the new AHA/ASA 2018 Guidelines for Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients.
So now that we’ve said goodbye to LA and ISC 2018, what did we learn? Lucky for you, we skimmed ALL 345 pages of the 2018 Guideline in order to bring you the most compelling additions and revisions:
What are your thoughts on the latest guidelines? Let us know below!
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