Drill down analysis of door-to-needle time of acute ischemic stroke patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1330-1333

  Schrock, Jon W ^a   Lum, Marija ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOOR TO NEEDLE TIME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84910149255     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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