Safety of intravenous thrombolytic use in four emergency departments without acute stroke teams

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1062-1071

  Scott, Phillip A ^a   Frederiksen, Shirley M ^a   Kalbfleisch, John D ^b   Xu, Zhenzhen ^b   Meurer, William J ^a   Caveney, Angela F ^c   Sandretto, Annette ^a   Holden, Ann B ^a   Haan, Mary N ^d   Hoeffner, Ellen G ^a   Ansari, Sameer A ^e   Lambert, David P ^f   Jaggi, Michael ^a   Barsan, William G ^a   Silbergleit, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f St Paul Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; ICH; safety; stroke; tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG TOXICITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649470137     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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