An association between systolic blood pressure and stroke among patients with impaired consciousness in out-of-hospital emergency settings

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Irisawa, Taro ^a   Iwami, Taku ^b   Kitamura, Tetsuhisa ^a   Nishiyama, Chika ^b   Sakai, Tomohiko ^c   Tanigawa Sugihara, Kayo ^b   Hayashida, Sumito ^d   Nishiuchi, Tatsuya ^e   Shiozaki, Tadahiko ^a   Tasaki, Osamu ^f   Kawamura, Takashi ^b   Hiraide, Atsushi ^g   Shimazu, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Osaka Municipal Fire Department   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Impaired consciousness; Prehospital; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 84890262769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-13-24     Document Type: Article

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