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Improving emergency medical service in acute stroke care in Taiwan.
Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 22 No 1 March 2013 Thrombolysis with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) within 3 or 4.5 hours of symptom onset is the only currently proved treatment for acute ischemic stroke and has been shown to be highly costeffective, and improve long-term functional dependence. However, only 2%-5% of acute ischemic patients can receive the treatment. Delayed p...
متن کاملUtilization of emergency medical service increases chance of thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke.
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE To determine whether utilization of emergency medical service (EMS) can increase use and expedite delivery of the thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke patients. METHODS We analyzed consecutive patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an ischemic stroke within 72 hours of symptom onset from a prospective stroke registry. Variables associated with ea...
متن کاملEmergency medical service hospital prenotification is associated with improved evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
BACKGROUND The benefits of intravenous tissue-plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute ischemic stroke are time-dependent. Emergency medical services (EMS) hospital prenotification of an incoming patient with potential stroke may provide a means of reducing evaluation and treatment times and improving treatment rates; yet, available data are limited. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined 371 988 patien...
متن کاملPatterns, Predictors, Variations, and Temporal Trends in Emergency Medical Service Hospital Prenotification for Acute Ischemic Stroke
BACKGROUND#ENTITYSTARTX02014;: Emergency medical services (EMS) hospital prenotification of an incoming stroke patient is guideline recommended as a means of increasing the timeliness with which stroke patients are evaluated and treated. Still, data are limited with regard to national use of, variations in, and temporal trends in EMS prenotification and associated predictors of its use. METHOD...
متن کاملStroke--a medical emergency.
Acute ischaemic stroke as an urgent-to-treat condition has gained a more prominent role in the consciousness of emergency physicians and neurologists over the past decade. This is mainly due to an increasing insight into the pathophysiological mechanism of ischaemia, the definition of therapeutical goals, such as reperfusion or neuroprotection, and the recent application of respective treatment...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nosotchu
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0912-0726,1883-1923
DOI: 10.3995/jstroke.36.201