Stroke--a medical emergency.
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Stroke--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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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.16.1.2