Factors influencing pre-hospital delay after ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1739-1744

  Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^b   Uchino, Makoto ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Emergency services; Pre hospital delay

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGNOSIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DIZZINESS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450184088     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2378     Document Type: Article

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