Considerable delay in diagnosis and acute management of subarachnoid haemorrhage

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Larsen, Carl Christian ^a,b   Eskesen, Vagn ^a,b   Hauerberg, John ^a,b   Olesen, Charlotte ^a,b   Romner, Bertil ^a,b   Astrup, Jens ^a,b  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Department of Neurosurgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DENMARK; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANEXAMIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954565785     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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