"Stroke codes are the hottest of messes." That's how one of my emergency medicine colleagues put it to me recently. And you know what? She's probably right. The problem is that a ton of things have to ...

When someone who may be having a stroke is brought by EMS to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a specialized medical team meets the patient at the door and immediately starts to evaluate their ...

doctor with pager The adjusted analysis also demonstrated that the code stroke system was associated with a decreased risk for post-stroke epilepsy within 5 years of stroke. The code stroke system, ...

At the first sign of a stroke, time is of the essence. For every minute of delay in treatment, people typically lose almost two million brain cells. Yet a new study presented at the Canadian Stroke ...

CTV Windsor: Code Stroke A closer look at how 'code stroke' is saving lives. Michelle Maluske has details.

Editor's note: A healthy, 30-year-old male nurse working in the stroke unit at JFK Medical Center in Edison had a stroke and called his own code. Along with a team of JFK surgeons, medical physicians, ...

It’s important to ensure your coders are coding stroke correctly. There are three types of stroke you can add: Accurate choice of code is important because (with a couple of exceptions) only the ...