Implementation of telemedicine and stroke network in thrombolytic administration: Comparison between walk-in and referred patients

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-66

  Dharmasaroja, Pornpatr A ^a   Muengtaweepongsa, Sombat ^a   Kommarkg, Urai ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Stroke network; Telemedicine; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANKIN SCALE; SEPSIS; SMOKING; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; AGED; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER NETWORK; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954383495     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9360-3     Document Type: Article

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