Adherence to guidelines by emergency medical services during transport of stroke patients receiving intravenous thrombolytic infusion

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Asaithambi, Ganesh ^a   Chaudhry, Saqib A ^a   Hassan, Ameer E ^a   Rodriguez, Gustavo J ^a   Suri, M Fareed K ^a   Qureshi, Adnan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

"drip and ship"; Acute stroke; emergency medical services; guidelines; prehospital setting; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSIVE STROKE CENTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL SIGN;

" DRIP AND SHIP"; ACUTE STROKE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GUIDELINES; PREHOSPITAL SETTING; THROMBOLYSIS;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84886013629     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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