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ReviewPractical neurology2020

Diagnosis and management of acute ischaemic stroke.

Robert Hurford, Alakendu Sekhar, Tom A T Hughes, Keith W Muir

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Review in Practical neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert HurfordNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4226-7681
Alakendu SekharDepartment of Neurology, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK.
Tom A T HughesDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital of Wales Healthcare NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK.
Keith W MuirInstitute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK keith.muir@glasgow.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9535-022X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute ischaemic stroke is a major public health priority and will become increasingly relevant to neurologists of the future. The cornerstone of effective stroke care continues to be timely reperfusion treatment. This requires early recognition of symptoms by the public and first responders, triage to an appropriate stroke centre and efficient assessment and investigation by the attending stroke team. The aim of treatment is to achieve recanalisation and reperfusion of the ischaemic penumbra with intravenous thrombolysis and/or endovascular thrombectomy in appropriately selected patients. All patients should be admitted directly to an acute stroke unit for close monitoring for early neurological deterioration and prevention of secondary complications. Prompt investigation of the mechanism of stroke allows patients to start appropriate secondary preventative treatment. Future objectives include improving accessibility to endovascular thrombectomy, using advanced imaging to extend therapeutic windows and developing neuroprotective agents to prevent secondary neuronal damage.

Indexed as

Brain IschemiaDisease ManagementEndovascular ProceduresHumansIschemic StrokeThrombectomyThrombolytic TherapyCEREBROVASCULAR DISEASEDYSPHAGIANEUROANATOMYNEUROEPIDEMIOLOGYNEURORADIOLOGYREHABILITATIONSTROKE

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PMID32507747
PMCPMC7577107

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