Factors associated with prehospital delay hospital delays in acute stroke

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 790-793

  Hong, Eun Seog ^a   Kim, Sun Hyu ^a   Kim, Woo Youn ^a   Ahn, Ryeok ^a   Hong, Jung Seok ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; THERAPY DELAY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 80052114586     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.094425     Document Type: Article

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