Publications by authors named "Dan McDermott"
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- A study evaluated the SMART (Simplified Management of Acute stroke using Revised Treatment) criteria for thrombolysis, aiming to expand patient eligibility compared to traditional IV rt-PA exclusion criteria.
- The research analyzed 539 patients who received IV thrombolysis, showing no significant differences in outcomes or safety between patients treated locally and those treated elsewhere in the network.
- The findings suggest that using SMART criteria is both safe and effective, potentially increasing the number of patients eligible for thrombolysis treatment.
Objective: Type 2 diabetes is epidemic among veterans, approaching three times the prevalence of the general population. Diabetes leads to devastating complications of vascular and neurologic malfunction and appears to impair auditory function. Hearing loss prevention is a major health-related initiative in the Veterans Health Administration.
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