The treatment of acute stroke patients on the stroke unit. First experiences with an acute stroke unit in Germany;Behandlung des akuten Schlaganfalls auf der Stroke Unit. Erste Erfahrungen mit einer akuten Stroke Unit in Deutschland

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Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 122-128

  Berlit, P ^a   Popescu, O ^a   Klotzsch C ^a   Diehl, R R ^a   Berg Dammer, E ^a  

^a ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebral ischemia; monitoring; stroke treatment; stroke unit; transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0030906060     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050106     Document Type: Article

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