Helsinki model cut stroke thrombolysis delays to 25 minutes in Melbourne in only 4 months

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1071-1076

  Meretoja, Atte ^a,c   Weir, Louise ^a   Ugalde, Melissa ^a   Yassi, Nawaf ^a   Yan, Bernard ^a   Hand, Peter ^a   Truesdale, Melinda ^b   Davis, Stephen M ^a   Campbell, Bruce C V ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and Medicine ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

AMBULANCE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE;

EID: 84884526342     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182a4a4d2     Document Type: Article

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