{"id":347,"date":"2014-03-27T05:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/?p=347"},"modified":"2014-03-28T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:14:07","slug":"to-fly-or-not-to-fly-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jnnp\/2014\/03\/27\/to-fly-or-not-to-fly-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"To fly or not to fly doctor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vexing question often posed of an unspepecting neurolgist is whether patients with a recent stroke, or risk of strokes, should fly.\u00a0 The answer is obvious, being &#8220;only with a safe airline:))&#8221;.\u00a0 However, all humour aside, this can be a difficult magaement questions.\u00a0 In this must read issue of JNNP, Reynolds and colleagues grapple with this issue.\u00a0 Subjects from the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) that travelled for a PET study to a regionla center were recruited.\u00a0 While just over a thirs of the subjects exhibited ipsilateral cerebral ischemia, thankfully no events were reported (TIAs or atrokes).\u00a0 So, I gues the answer must be Bon Voyage, but perhaps with an antiplatelet agent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 42px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.copterplane.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Aeroplane-3.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PLUS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 37px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/health-topics\/images\/cad_anatomy.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 APPEARS TO BE OK<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';color: black\">Reynolds MR, Kamath AA, Grubb RL, Powers WJ, Adams HP, Derdeyn CP; Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study Investigators.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The safety of aeroplane travel in patients with symptomatic carotid occlusion.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2014 Apr;85(4):435-7. doi: 10.1136\/jnnp-2013-306627. 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