Advances in Stroke 2008 Advances in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
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In 2008, there were clinical trial advances in 3 areas that will impact on the way stroke care is practiced in the emergency department and intensive care unit (ICU). These include (1) the positive results of the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study (ECASS) III trial, extending the time window for intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke; (2) the negative results of 2 trials investigating the use of intensive insulin therapy in the ICU; and (3) new data from the Phase 2 Intensive Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT), investigating the role of intensive blood pressure (BP) control after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).
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