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Medical Director MinuteAuthor: Jeff Myers, DO
The Medical Director Minute podcast is a high yield, rapid fire podcast bringing high impact discussions on clinical topics for Paramedics right to your smart phone. Podcasts are kept to about 10 minutes in length to make it easy to listen with your busy schedule. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Posterior Circulation Strokes
Episode 6
Friday, 25 October, 2019
Its estimated that up to 20 % of strokes involve what is called the posterior circulation of the brain. The significance of this fact is these strokes are not picked up or scored well on the NIH stroke scale and many other stroke scales because those scales are looking for larger territory anterior and middle cerebral artery strokes. Posterior circulation strokes affect the cerebellum, the balance center of the brain, the occipital lobe, responsible for interpreting visual input, and the brain stem. These strokes can involve significant deficits and yet score very low on these standardized scales. In this episode, we discuss the anatomy of the posterior circulation, the signs and symptoms that often occur with posterior circulation stroke syndromes and how to detect posterior strokes
