The potential use of prehospital thrombolysis in a rural community

Resuscitation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-307

  Doherty, Donna Tedstone ^a   Dowling, John ^b   Wright, Peter ^a   Murphy, Andrew W ^c   Bury, Gerard ^d   Bannan, Liam ^e  

^a Public Health Department   (Ireland)

^b North West Immediate Care Programme ^*  (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e LETTERKENNY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Emergency treatment; Enfarte do mioc rdio; Infarto de miocardio; Myocardial infarction; Reperfus o; Reperfusion; Reperfusi n; Thrombolysis; Tratamento de Emerg ncia; Tratamiento de emergencia; Trombolisis; Tromb lise

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AMBULANCE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 2542496906     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.01.022     Document Type: Article

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