Thrombolysis Case Studies
Case Study 4 (1)
A 43-year-old female is brought to the Emergency Department with possible stroke. Her symptoms began at about 10:00 am while she was riding a shuttle bus from another hospital to a medical office building. Other patients on the shuttle bus noted that her speech became slurred and her right arm was weak. In the Emergency Department, her vitals signs are normal; pulse is regular, and she appears to understand the staff. She has a mild right facial weakness, slight pronator drift, and ataxia of the right arm. Initial laboratory studies are sent to the lab and a finger-stick glucose is within normal range. ECG exhibits normal sinus rhythm.
Obtain
more history and accompany the patient to the CT scanner.
Abort
the Code Stroke since she is too young to have a stroke.