Emergency medical service in the stroke chain of survival

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-44

  Chenaitia, Hichem ^a   Lefevre, Oriane ^a   Ho, Vanessa ^a   Squarcioni, Christian ^a   Pradel, Vincent ^c   Fournier, Marc ^b   Toesca, Richard ^b   Michelet, Pierre ^a   Auffray, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Stroke Centre   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

Acute ischaemic stroke; Detection; Dispatch; Emergency medical service; Prehospital; Stroke centre; Transient ischaemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FACE ARM SPEECH TEST; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH DISORDER; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 84872192275     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: 14735695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32835015ac     Document Type: Article

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