Evaluation for causes of stroke with Professor Vincent Thijs

02/10/20 • 36 min

Neurogenesis: a practical guide for neurology trainees

Professor Vincent Thijs takes us through his approach to working up stroke patients for secondary causes. We discuss embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), aortic arch atheroma, intracranial atherosclerosis, patent foramen ovale, vasculitis, which investigations are the highest yield and general approaches to different types of patients. Enjoy!

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Dr Chris Dwyer answers a registrar's questions about how to deal with common ICU referrals - including prognostication in hypoxic brain injury and traumatic brain injury, along with how to pronounce brain death.

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Lumbar punctures and CSF interpretation with Dr Prashanth Ramachandran

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