Tag: patients

Patient empathy and avoiding the trap of depersonalisation

In a guest piece for NeuroNews, Blaise Baxter (San Francisco, USA) discusses empathy and compassion in the working life of a neurointerventionist, and highlights...

FDA issues two final guidances for including patient perspectives in medical...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two final guidances providing recommendations for including patient perspectives in medical device clinical studies.   As...
remote stroke interventions

SNIS 2021: Remote stroke interventions raise several unique ethical challenges

At the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s 18th annual meeting (SNIS; July 26–29 2021, Colorado Springs, USA and virtual), Jeffrey Saver, professor of Neurology at...

New ischaemic stroke guidelines widen mechanical thrombectomy window to 24 hours...

The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association released updated ischaemic stroke guidelines that were published in Stroke, and released during the International Stroke...