Prehospital Stroke Care: Limitations of Current Interventions and Focus on New Developments

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Yperzeele, Laetitia ^a,b   Van Hooff, Robbert Jan ^a,b   De Smedt, Ann ^a,b   Valenzuela Espinoza, Alexis ^b   Van De Casseye, Rohny ^c   Hubloue, Ives ^a,b   De Keyser, Jacques ^a,b,d   Brouns, Raf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c Flanders District of Creativity   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Stroke management; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MINOCYCLINE; RESISTIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROPROTECTION; PATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPERFUSION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE UNIT; TELEMEDICINE; ULTRASOUND; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; STROKE; TIME;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 84906028511     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000363617     Document Type: Review

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