Use of emergency department transcranial doppler assessment of reperfusion after intravenous tPA for ischemic stroke

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-43

  Phillips, Samantha ^a   Stanley, Leanne ^a   Nicoletto, Heather ^a   Burkman, Marilyn ^a   Laskowitz, Daniel T ^a   Cairns, Charles B ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute; clinical; diagnosis; Doppler; emergency; failure; human; stroke; treatment

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; REPERFUSION; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84856097379     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.06.028     Document Type: Article

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