Remote specialist assessment for intravenous thrombolysis of acute ischaemic stroke by telephone

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 704-708

  Rudd, Matthew ^a   Rodgers, Helen ^b,c   Curless, Richard ^c   Sudlow, Mark ^b,c   Huntley, Stuart ^a   Madhava, Badanahatti ^c   Garside, Mark ^a   Price, Christopher I ^a,b  

^a WANSBECK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION TREES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEPHONE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865221994     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200582     Document Type: Article

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