9 results match your criteria: "Warren Alpert School of Medical at Brown University[Affiliation]"

Background: Surgeons are at high risk for malpractice claims, which can significantly impact physician quality of life and risk of burnout. There are few published data reporting the incidence, outcomes, and repercussions of malpractice lawsuits on neurointerventionalists.

Methods: A survey of senior members of the United States Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS) was performed to study malpractice litigation and medical board complaints.

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Background: Older patients undergoing thrombectomy for emergent large vessel occlusion have worse outcomes. However, complete or near-complete reperfusion (modified Thrombolysis in Cerebral Ischemia (mTICI) score of 2 c/3) is associated with improved outcomes compared with partial recanalisation (mTICI 2b).

Objective: To examine the relationship between outcomes and age separately for the mTICI 2c/3, 2b and 0-2a groups in patients undergoing thrombectomy for anterior circulation emergent large vessel occlusion.

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Evidence-based clinical practice for the neurointerventionalist.

J Neurointerv Surg

March 2015

Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky, USA Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

The field of neurointerventional (NI) surgery has developed in the context of technologic innovation. Many treatments readily provided in 2014 would have been hard to imagine as recently as 10 years ago. The reality of present day NI care is that, while providers, payors, policy makers and patients rely on evidence to guide NI decision-making, the available data are often less robust than participants might desire.

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