Impact of telemedicine on acute management of stroke patients undergoing endovascular procedures

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 436-442

  Pedragosa, Àngels ^a,b   Alvarez Sabín, Jose ^b,c   Rubiera, Marta ^c   Rodriguez Luna, David ^c   Maisterra, Olga ^c   Molina, Carlos ^b,c   Brugués, Joan ^a   Ribó, Marc ^b,c  

^a Internal Medicine Department   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Endovascular procedures; Intra arterial thrombolysis; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RECANALIZATION; TELEMEDICINE; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84870289590     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345088     Document Type: Article

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