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Podcast: Think Neuro
Episode: 4: With Stroke Victims, Speed Saves Lives | Dr. Jason Tarpley
Description: For Dr. Jason Tarpley, speed is everything. He’s the director of Pacific Neuroscience Institute’s Stroke & Neurovascular Center, and when it comes to stroke—a blockage in an artery that feeds the brain—time is a killer. For every minute that a section of brain matter doesn’t get blood flow, 1.9 million neurons suffocate to death, taking brain function with them. Dr. Tarpley’s message to his team? No matter how fast you’re going, you should be going faster. What that means in vascular neurology is threading a tube the size of a phone-charging cord into an artery in the leg, th...