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As you know the numbers needed to treat in stroke thrombolysis is 8, that means for every 8 people with a stroke that you thrombolyse one of those 8 will get the benefit.
unknown title 2009
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But conversely there's a number needed to harm and the number needed to harm is about 18 which means for every 18 people you thrombolyse one of them will get the very harmful side effect of bleeding into the brain and if that happens almost half the people die.
unknown title 2009
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So that means for every 18 people that you thrombolyse with a stroke only 3 of them will actually get an effect from the thrombolysis, 2 of the 3 will get a good effect, 1 of the 3 will get the very bad effect.
unknown title 2009
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