Vomiting should be a prompt predictor of stroke outcome

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 728-731

  Shigematsu, Kazuo ^a   Shimamura, Osamu ^b   Nakano, Hiromi ^c   Watanabe, Yoshiyuki ^b   Sekimoto, Tatsuyuki ^d   Shimizu, Kouichiro ^e   Nishizawa, Akihiko ^f   Makino, Masahiro ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization Minami Kyoto Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Kyoto Kidugawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Kyoto Fushimishimizu Hospital   (Japan)

^f Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SMOKING; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOMITING;

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; PREHOSPITAL CARE; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VOMITING;

EID: 84882452352     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201586     Document Type: Article

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