Geriatric Neurologic Emergencies

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-298

  Kulchycki, Lara K ^a   Edlow, Jonathan A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

AGED; AGING; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; GERIATRIC CARE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMODILUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERVOLEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINE INJURY; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645916073     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2006.01.013     Document Type: Review

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