Bringing the hospital to the patient: First treatment of stroke patients at the emergency site

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Walter, Silke ^a   Kostpopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Haass, Anton ^a   Helwig, Stefan ^a   Keller, Isabel ^a   Licina, Tamara ^a   Schlechtriemen, Thomas ^b   Roth, Christian ^a   Papanagiotou, Panagiotis ^a   Zimmer, Anna ^a   Vierra, Julio ^a   Körner, Heiko ^a   Schmidt, Kathrin ^a   Romann, Marie Sophie ^a   Alexandrou, Maria ^a   Yilmaz, Umut ^a   Grunwald, Iris ^a   Kubulus, Darius ^a   Lesmeister, Martin ^a   Ziegeler, Stephan ^a   Pattar, Alexander ^a   Golinski, Martin ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Volk, Thomas ^a   Bertsch, Thomas ^c   Reith, Wolfgang ^a   Fassbender, Klaus ^a   more..

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Zweckverband für Rettungsdienst and Feuerwehralarmierung ^*  (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; URAPIDIL;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RESPONSE TIME; STROKE PATIENT; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TELECONSULTATION; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; STROKE;

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149461411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013758     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Rothwell PM, Coull AJ, Silver LE, Fairhead JF, Giles MF, et al. (2005) Population-based study of event-rate, incidence, case fatali, and morality for all acute vascular events in all arterial territories. (Oxford Vascular Study). Lancet 366: 1773-1783.
2. van der Worp HB, van Gijn J (2007) Acute ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med 357: 572-579.
3. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group (1995) Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med 333: 1581-1587.
4. Adams HP, Jr., del Zoppo G, Alberts MJ, Bhatt DL, Brass L, et al. (2007) Guidelines for the early management of adults with ischemic stroke: a guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Council, Clinical Cardiology Council, Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention Council, and the Atherosclerotic Peripheral Vascular Disease and Quality of Care Outcomes in Research Interdisciplinary Working Groups: The American Academy of Neurology affirms the value of this guideline as an educational tool for neurologists. Circulation 115: e478-534.
5. European Stroke Organization (ESO) Executive Committee: Collective Name: ESO Writing Committee (2008) Guidelines for management of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack Cerebrovasc Dis 25: 457-507.
6. Weir CJ, Murray GD, Adams FG, Muir KW, Grosset DG, Lees KR (1994) Poor accuracy of stroke scoring systems for differential clinical diagnosis of intracranial haemorrhage and infarction. Lancet 344: 999-1002.
7. Boehringer, Summary of Product Characteristics last updated on the eMC: 13/08/2009.
8. Katzan IL, Hammer MD, Hixson ED, Furlan AJ, Abou-Chebl A, Nadzam DM (2004) Utilization of intravenous tissue plasinogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. Arch Neurol 61: 346-350.
9. Lichtman JH, Watanabe E, Allen NB, Jones SB, Dostal J, Goldstein LB (2009) Hospital Arrival Time and Intravenous t-PA Use in US Academic Medical Centers, 2001-2004. Stroke 40: 3845-3850.
10. Qureshi AI, Suri MF, Nasar A, He W, Kirmani JF, et al. (2005) Thrombolysis for ischemic stroke in the United States: Data from National Hospital Discharge Survey 1999-2001. Neurosurgery 57: 647-654.
11. Kleindorfer DLC, White G, Curtis T, Brass L, Koroshetz W, Broderick JP (2008) National US estimates of rt-PA use: ICD-9 codes substantially underestimate. Stroke 39: 924-928.
12. Fassbender K, Walter S, Liu Y, Muehlhauser F, Ragoschke A, et al. (2003) ''Mobile stroke unit'' for hyperacute stroke treatment. Stroke 34: epub 44.
13. Von Kummer R, Meyding-Lamade U, Forsting M, Rosin L, Rieke K, et al. (1995) Sensitivity and prognostic value of early CT in occlusion of the middle cerebral artery trunk. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 15: 9-15.
14. Mazighi M, Serfaty JM, Labreuche J, Laissy JP, Meseguer E, et al. (2009) Comparison of intravenous alteplase with a combined intravenous-endovascular approach in patients with stroke and confirmed arterial occlusion (RECANA-LIZE study): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Neurol 8: 802-809.
15. Bose A, Henkes H, Alfke K, Reith W, Mayer TE, et al. (2008) Penumbra Phase 1 Stroke Trial Investigators. The Penumbra System: a mechanical device for the treatment of acute stroke due to thromboembolism. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 29: 1409-1413.
16. Nor A, Davis J, Shipsey D, Louw SJ, Dyker AG, et al. (2005) The recognition of stroke in the emergency room (ROSIER) scale: development and validation of a stroke recognition instrument. Lancet Neurol 4: 727-734.
17. Broderick J, Connolly S, Feldmann E, Hanley D, Kase C, et al. (2007) Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Adults: 2007 Update: A Guideline from the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association Stroke Council, High Blood Pressure Research Council, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes in Research Interdisciplinary Working Group: The American Academy of Neurology affirms the value of this guideline as an educational tool for neurologists. Circulation 116: e391-413.
18. The European Stroke Initiative Writing Committee and the Writing Committee for the EUSI Executive Committee. Recommendations for the Management of Intracranial Haemorrhage - Part I: (2008) Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage. Cerebrovasc Dis 22: 294-316.
19. Hossmann KA (1994) Viability thresholds and the penumbra of focal ischemia. Ann Neurol 36: 557-565.
20. Marler JR, Tilley BC, Lu M, Brott TG, Lyden PC, et al. (2000) Early stroke treatment associated with better outcome: the NINDS rt-PA Stroke Study. Neurology 55: 1649-1655.
21. Price CI, Clement F, Gray J, Donaldson C, Ford GA (2009) Systematic review of stroke thrombolysis service configuration. Expert Rev Neurother 9: 211-233.
22. Howells DW, Donnan GA (2010) Where will the next generation of stroke treatments come from? PLoS Med 7(3): e1000224.