Use of telemedicine to manage severe ischaemic strokes in a rural area with an elderly population

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 683-685

  Richard, Sébastien ^a   Lavandier, K ^b   Zioueche, Y ^b   Pelletier, S ^b   Vezain, A ^c   Ducrocq, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b CH Bar le Duc   (France)

^c GCS Télésanté Lorraine ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Ischaemic stroke; Rural stroke; Telemedicine; Telestroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RURAL AREA; TELEMEDICINE; TELERADIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEOCONFERENCING; COMPLICATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FRANCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FRANCE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901355679     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-013-1577-4     Document Type: Article

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