teleNeurology

By Eric Anderson, MD Here is a sadly familiar story for a neurologist to hear: a young woman, perhaps a new mother, begins to see signs of physical decline. She’s unusually fatigued and sometimes dizzy when she tries to get up, though […]

By Dr. Susanna Horvath One of the most gratifying and counterintuitive surprises of my career is how teleNeurology offers real-time clinician collaboration. That might seem like an odd claim considering what’s going on in the world. Over the last ten months, many […]

To observe the story of Dr. Elaine Jones’ career over the past 20 years is, in many ways, to hold a mirror to the story of practicing neurology in America: from launching an independent practice, to finding that practice increasingly beset by […]

By Eric Anderson, MD This June, the Journal of Neurology published a paper surveying the neurological complications from COVID-19. Whereas past coronaviruses are known predominantly as respiratory infections, COVID-19 could lead to stroke, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and encephalitis, the paper noted, while smaller […]

By Dr. Eric Anderson The FDA approved the use of tissue plasminogen activator for ischemic stroke in 1996. Over the next two decades, the literature on treating stroke patients with tPA as quickly as possible became widely accepted as the standard of […]

Adapted from a presentation at the Telemed IQ Summit Kathryn Buck, emergency services clinical nurse specialist, explained to Telemed IQ Summit attendees how CarolinaEast Medical Center used teleNeurology to build a comprehensive stroke care program. She started with why: “CarolinaEast is the […]