IPSO Blog

IPSO Blog

IPSO’s International Perspective

By Heather Fullerton. When we first conceived of IPSO a few years ago, one explicit goal was to obtain a global perspective on cerebrovascular disease in children.  The factors that lead to pediatric stroke are heterogenous and complex, some poorly understood mix of...

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Kids have strokes, too?

By Ratika Srivastava. I am a pediatric stroke fellow at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada. Whenever I tell people what I do, they invariably say, “OH! I didn’t know kids have strokes. That’s so sad.” And it is sad – but it is not without hope....

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Teamwork in Pediatric Stroke

By Jenny Wilson and Peter Sporns. Many pediatric hospitals have developed systems to respond to an acute pediatric stroke. These systems involve collaboration between physicians, nurses, and other experts hospital-wide from a diverse set of backgrounds and training,...

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