The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 87 - Anticoagulant Therapy in Stroke...To Treat or Not to Treat?
There once was an anticoagulant agent named tPA...hold up, this isn't a fairytale and this story doesn't cover tPA or TNK! Those are different stories for different days.
Does every stroke patient we encounter need to be anticoagulated? Or should we not be so quick to pull that trigger? If you are going to give a stroke patient anticoagulants, which types of strokes should it be? What are the three main subsets that really need it? With that question comes another bigger question, which anticoagulant agents are most appropriate for these types of strokes? Join me on this episode as we discuss fractionated vs unfractionated Heparin, DOAC's, and Coumadin's roles in the stroke patients.
