Emergency Management of Ischemic Stroke in Children

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Steinlin, Maja ^a,b   Mackay, Mark T ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Chain of survival; Children; Decompressive craniotomy; Diagnostic workup; Emergency; Emergency treatment; Emergency workup; Heparin; Ischaemic stroke; Neuroimaging; Recognition tools; Steroids; Supportive therapy; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; STEROID;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISEASE; ATAXIA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAINTNESS; HEADACHE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VASCULITIS; VERTIGO;

EID: 84927592715     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: 15343138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-015-0349-2     Document Type: Review

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