October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 25m
English
Dr. Irene Katzan was about to step into exam room S8-211 to see the next patient on her morning’s schedule, a 72-year-old woman who had experienced a transient ischemic attack (TIA) nine days before, when the pager in the right hip pocket of her white clinician’s smock vibrated. She read the message, MOBILE STROKE UNIT EN ROUTE 10 MINUTES, and clipped the device onto her coat.
As a staff physician in Cleveland Clinic’s Neurological Institute, Dr. Katzan specializes in cerebrovascular disease and secondary stroke prevention (the word prevention occupies a prominent position in her clinical philosophy). Even though the distinction between a stroke (the presence of focal neurological deficits that last ...
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