{"id":50,"date":"2006-11-27T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/27\/lancet-25-nov-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T14:32:31","slug":"lancet-25-nov-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/27\/lancet-25-nov-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet 25 Nov 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606697766\/fulltext\">ancrod<\/a>? It\u2019s a tissue plasminogen activator which improves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606697766\/fulltext\">stroke outcomes<\/a> slightly if given within a short time. However, this study shows no benefit in patients with acute ischaemic stroke who receive it at between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673606697766\/fulltext\">3 and 6 hours<\/a> after the event. <!--more-->I am reminded of a rousing hymn which the Salvation Army used to sing outside sailors\u2019 taverns, \u201cWill your anchor hold in the storm of life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of ancrod? It\u2019s a tissue plasminogen activator which improves stroke outcomes slightly if given within a short time. However, this study shows no benefit in patients with acute ischaemic stroke who receive it at between 3 and 6 hours after the event. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2006\/11\/27\/lancet-25-nov-2006\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}