# New Resident Guide to Stroke Alerts - Part 1 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/neurology-minute-15117/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/neurology-minute-15117/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1.md Podcast: [Neurology Minute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/neurology-minute-15117) Published: 2026-06-04T08:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://neurologyminute.libsyn.com/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1 Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/neurologyminute/04_June_4th_2026_nm_v2.mp3?dest-id=1085030 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/neurology-minute-15117/episodes/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1 Duration seconds: 275 ## Resource In part one of this series, Dr. Andy Southerland and Dr. Dan Ackerman discuss what stands out in the latest thrombolysis guidelines, how these decisions are applied in stroke center practice, and how to educate residents and fellows on incorporating new evidence into treatment choices. Show transcript: Dr. Andy Southerland: Hi. This is Andy Southerland from the University of Virginia, and for today's Neurology Minute, I'm speaking with my friend and colleague, Dan Ackerman, Chief of Neurology and Director of Stroke at St. Luke's University Health System. I've been speaking with Dan on the main neurology podcast regarding updates to acute stroke treatment related to the 2026 American Heart Association guidelines that came out in late January of this year on the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke. For our episode today, we might focus our discussion around thrombolytic therapy thrombolysis, which is at the core of what we do as acute stroke neurologists when it comes to treatment decision-making. So maybe as a first prompt, Dan, when you look at these guidelines, what stands out to you as you're thinking about how you practice, how you all are practicing at your stroke center, and then specifically how we educate our residents, our fellows on what they need to know, particularly the newness of it when it comes to making thrombolysis treatment decisions? Dr. Dan Ackerman: With all the discussions we've had in the past, there have been a lot of specifics about certain studies and how they might affect practice, but this guideline really opened up a lot and gave us an opportunity to do things in a way that makes really good clinical sense and really brings a lot of practices that have now become common at some centers into the fore so that we can get th… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/neurology-minute-15117/episodes/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/neurology-minute-15117/new-resident-guide-to-stroke-alerts-part-1.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.