Optimal workflow and process-based performance measures for endovascular therapy in acute ischemic stroke: Analysis of the solitaire FR thrombectomy for acute revascularization study

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2024-2029

  Menon, Bijoy K ^a,b   Almekhlafi, Mohammed A ^a,b,c   Pereira, Vitor Mendes ^d   Gralla, Jan ^e   Bonafe, Alain ^f   Davalos, Antoni ^g   Chapot, Rene ^h   Goyal, Mayank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c King Abdulaziz University   (Saudi Arabia)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^h Alfred Krupp Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular accident; emergency; stroke

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANADA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCULATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RANKIN SCALE; REPERFUSION; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; THROMBECTOMY; VERY ELDERLY; WORKFLOW; YOUNG ADULT;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPERFUSION; STENTS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84903741210     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005050     Document Type: Article

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