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Abstract 280: Risk Factors in 90day Ischemic Stroke Readmissions

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Discharge disposition of subacute nursing facility (SNF) represents 36.1% Study Population includes all patients with an ischemic stroke inpatient admission in 2018 and were continuously enrolled with Medicare FFS for 1 year prior to and following their initial 2018 stroke admission. female and 83.1% in study population).

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Anterior OMI with RBBB has VF x 3: how to prevent further episodes of VF?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

cms) with moderately reduced systolic function. I'll never forget when I ordered such an infusion in 1991 and then my patient started seizing and I looked up and the nurse had hung the lidocaine wide open! We showed this in this article in JAMA Cardiology. Peak troponin was greater than 60,000 ng/L -- too high to measure.