By Brian Appavu and Todd Abruzzo. In the summer of 2020 the Phoenix Children’s Hospital pediatric stroke team encountered a previously healthy 8 year-old child with severe clinical stroke secondary to acute large vessel occlusion. The child, who had a history of...
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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,...
COVID-19 and pediatric stroke—is there a connection?
By Heather Fullerton.One of our earliest pediatric mechanical thrombectomy cases at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital was during the 2003 SARS global outbreak. Some of you may remember how children suffered more severe respiratory illnesses with that other...
Feasibility, Safety and Outcome of Endovascular Recanalization in Childhood Stroke: a worldwide multicenter prospective registry (Save ChildS Pro)
| Enrolling | Prospective Observational Registry |Multi-Site | Peter Sporns | Save ChildS Pro is a prospective registry including all pediatric patients with large vessel occlusion arterial ischemic stroke either treated with endovascular thrombectomy or best medical...