Weight approximation in stroke before thrombolysis: The WAIST-study: A prospective observational dose-finding study

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2867-2871

  Breuer, Lorenz ^a   Nowe, Tim ^a   Huttner, Hagen B ^a   Blinzler, Christian ^a   Kollmar, Rainer ^a   Schellinger, Peter D ^a   Schwab, Stefan ^a   Köhrmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute ischemic stroke; body weight; stroke; thrombolysis; tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DOSE; DRUG UNDERDOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NURSE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELATIVE; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650415822     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.578062     Document Type: Article

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