Acute Stroke Care

M. Carter Denny MD, MPH is an assistant professor of neurology in the stroke program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC. She completed her two-year vascular neurology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. Ahmad Riad Ramadan MD is a staff neurologist in the Stroke and Neurocritical Care divisions at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. He completed a vascular neurology fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas, as a well as a neurocritical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Sean I. Savitz MD is professor and Director of the Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease and holds the Frank M. Yatsu, MD Chair in Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. He conducts both basic science and clinical research in stroke, with a focus on developing cell-based therapies to promote stroke recovery. James C. Grotta MD is Director of the Mobile Stroke Unit Consortium and Director of Stroke Research, Clinical Institute for Research and Innovation, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas. He is the editor of the market-leading stroke reference, Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management, 6th edition (2016).

1. Stroke in the emergency department; 2. What to do first; 3. Ischemic stroke; 4. Stroke radiology; 5. Intravenous thrombolysis; 6. Endovascular therapy (ET); 7. Neurological deterioration in acute ischemic stroke; 8. Ischemic stroke etiology and secondary prevention; 9. Transient ischemic attack (TIA); 10. Less common causes of stroke; 11. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; 12. Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH); 13. Subarachnoid hemorrage (SAH); 14. Organization of stroke care; 15. Stroke rehabilitation; 16. Transition to outpatient stroke care.