Acute Stroke Care
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Acute Stroke Care
e second edition of Acute Stroke Care by Uchino, Pary, and Grotta is a pocket-sized practical guide intended for medical students, residents, and other clinicians involved in direct care of the acute stroke patient from emergency department through hospital discharge. Th e bulk of the text deals with acute ischemic stroke with short chapters addressing intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc11885