This Terms of Use Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and between the Hyperacute Stroke Decision Engine project (Dr. Houman Khosravani, the “author”) and “you,” the user of this website (the “Site”). Access to, use of, and/or browsing of the Site is provided subject to the terms and conditions set out here. By accessing, using, and/or browsing the Site, you agree to these terms and conditions.
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Overview
Information provided on this Site is for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THERE IS NO DUTY OF CARE. THIS WEBSITE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PURPOSES AND USE BY SPECIFIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. It is not intended as, and does not substitute for, medical advice. If you are a patient, please see your doctor for evaluation of your individual case. Under no circumstances will the author be liable to you for any direct or indirect damages arising in connection with use of this Site. This Site’s intended audience is medical providers (medical students, residents, staff, nurses) for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. Any operational decision or use is at the discretion of the provider and based on their own expertise and judgment. This Site and its content have no medical care responsibility, do not claim to be the ground source of truth, and do not replace expert clinical opinion and practice. The decision engine on this Site is explicitly marked draft and pending clinical review; see the disclaimer repeated on every page.
External hyperlinks
The appearance of external hyperlinks to other websites does not constitute endorsement. We do not verify, endorse, or take responsibility for the accuracy, currency, completeness, or quality of the content contained on those sites.
Case data
There is no real patient data on this Site. We do not write or “blog” about patients. The 50 case scenarios shown on this Site are synthetic test cases used to validate the decision engine’s logic, similar in spirit to the vignettes in a board-exam question bank. They are not descriptions of real patients or real clinical encounters.
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Purpose of this Site
This Site is intended for medical professionals but can also be accessed by the general public. The information provided here is made available by the author for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. By accessing the Site, visitors acknowledge that there is no physician-patient relationship between them and the author. The Site should not be used as a substitute for competent medical advice from a licensed physician. It is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient and their physician. Every recommendation the decision engine produces references back to its source guideline, with its section and grade. Nothing here asserts authority beyond the cited source.
Privacy
This Site does not currently collect any personal information about its visitors and readers, and does not use cookies or analytics.
Disclosure of funding sources
This is a private, non-commercial educational project receiving no funding from any third party.
Links to other websites
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Copyright
Copyright © 2026 Dr. Houman Khosravani, and Division of Neurology, University of Toronto. Code is MIT-licensed (see the project’s GitHub repository); cited guideline text is reproduced as short, individually attributed quotations for clinical and educational use.